President Takashi Yabashi talks about B-SAT's BS broadcasting services, BSAT-3 and the next BSAT-4 satellites, control and management systems as well as stable operations by an uplink compensation technology.
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"An often overlooked requirement is that innovation also requires great (or even heroic) customers - customers who seek the rewards of innovation but still have the risk appetite to be able to fund and trial innovations that might run late, be over budget, or that do not fully meet specification!"
In AIAA ICSSC-2015, which was held in Gold Coast of Australia from September 7 to 10, 2015, Dr. Rowan Gilmore has worked hard and well as the General Chair. He makes an excellent comment about innovation in telecommunications.
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As an executive management at SSL, Chris Hoeber accomplished a great job to make his company the world leader in communications satellite manufacturing industry until he retired a year ago. Here, he looks back some early history of the first SSL1300 satellite �gSuperbird-A�h as the Japan/U.S. joint program, as well as the legacy story which Superbird left for the following programs.
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The round-trip propagation time of radio wave is about 0.3 seconds in the satellite communication using a geostationary satellite positioned at 36,000km altitude above the equator. So the satellite communication can not compete at all to discussion in this book that treats milliseconds (mS) and/or microseconds (ƒÊS). Moreover, the satellite communications related person might feel far away this book increasingly, because it became a reputation in the market of stock trading. I, the reviewer of this book, am interested in this book precisely because the satellite communication can not compete at all. When I read it, even communication technology engineer, who has a technology goal to convey the information as quickly as possible, is awaked to that decreasing the propagation time produces much important and highly profitable worth rather than a market issue of stock trading. It is interesting that some of such examples have been described in this book. This review is based on Japanese translation version of this book...
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�gGinrei�h is the world�fs first visible light communication experimental satellite, which has been developed under collaboration between Shinshu University and Shinshu Satellite Workshop. The Ginrei satellite was launched in February 28, 2014 with H-IIA launch vehicle...
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World Radiocommunication Conferences (WRC) are held every three to four years to review and revise the Radio Regulations, and the international treaty governing the use of the radio-frequency spectrum and the geostationary-satellite and non-geostationary-satellite orbits. WRC-15 was held in Geneva, Switzerland from November 2 to 27, 2015. This paper reports how the Radio Regulations have been revised mainly from space related viewpoints.
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The 21st Ka and Broadband Communications Conference was held in Bologna, Italy on October 12-14,2015.
The next conference co-organized by AIAA ICSSC will be held in Cleveland, Ohio, on October, 17-20, 2016.
Abstract Due: April 30, 2016.
Final Paper Due: September 1, 2016
Please visit web site of http://www.kaconf.org/
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The 16th Japan-Korea Joint Conference on Satellite Communications (JC-SAT2015), which was held in Osaka, Japan on October 7-8, 2015, is reported in this paper.
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Dr. Akio Iso talks about expected roles of satellite communications in Ku and Ka bands together with an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) during natural disasters such as a volcanic eruption.
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