Space Japan Review

Space Japan Review 10, 11, 12, 01
No.81, October/November/December 2012 /January 2013


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Space Japan Review, No. 81
A vehicle-mount earth station with fully automatic pointing capability for the Ka-band WINDS satellite
Photo: Courtesy of NICT























Contents

Cover Page
A vehicle-mount earth station with fully automatic pointing capability for the Ka-band WINDS satellite
Photo: Courtesy of NICT
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Greeting from Editors (in English/Japanese)
Editorial Board of Space Japan Review

A Happy New Year! We would like to continue transmitting the useful information through the Space Japan Review. We appreciate your continuous support for the JFSC.
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Topics From Within: (in English)
Attending at Joint Conference of AIAA-ICSSC2012 and Ka-Band Broadband Conference
Takashi Iida, Special Advisor of JFSC
"The author participated in the Joint Conference of 30th AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC) and 18th Ka and Broadband Communications, Navigation and Earth Observation Conference held in Ottawa on September 25-27, 2012. At first, the report focuses on the content of the panel discussion that the author attended as one of the panelists, then some topics are reported. The other topics are expected to be reported by any specialist."
(PDF: 377kB)

Special Report: (in Japanese)
"NICT's Small Optical Transponder (SOTA)"
Yoshihisa Takayama, NICT
(PDF: 418kB)

Conference Report (in Japanese)
Report on Japan-Korea Joint Conference on Satellite Communications iJC-SAT2012)
Naoto Kadowaki, NICT
(PDF:225kB)

Capital Product & Review (in Japanese)
Ka-band Land Mobile Earth Station
Mitsugu Ohkawa, Akira Akaishi and Takashi Takahashi, NICT
(PDF:289kB)

Space Japan Interview (in Japanese)
Learned from Development of CS "Sakura, Cherry in English", blooming in the universe of "Showa"
Akio Iso, Iso SpaceNet Research
(PDF:634kB)

Editorfs Notes




Editorial Board of Space Japan Review, AIAA JFSC:
Hiromitsu Wakana
Space Communication Group, NICT
4-2-1, Nukui-Kitamachi, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8795, Japan

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