SJR


Space Japan Review 10 - 11

No.31 October 2003 / November 2003



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COVER PHOTOGRAPH

Election of Ariane-5 first stage


Contents

Cover Page

Interview with CEO
Jean-Yves Le Gall, CEO Arianespace

"I do believe that the demand for satellite services and the corresponding need for satellites will continue to grow, and while it may never reach the heights projected in the late 1990s, it will certainly stabilize at a somewhat higher level than we've seen recently."
(Interviewer:T. Ueda, AIAA-JFSC)


AIAA-ICSS-21 Report

In the 21st AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference, which was held in Pacifico Yokohama, Japan from 15 to 19 April 2003, Plenary Sessions A and B were held on 16 April. These sessions will be reported here.

Plenary A
Plenary B


Space Japan Club (15)
(Interviewer:Y. Kazekami, AIAA-JFSC)

"Due to advance in space technology, small satellite may also have large capacity. It is possible to explore the advantages of observation, communications and global position systems."


Selected Paper
"Study on Satellite Communications using Ultra Wideband (UWB) Signals"
by Yoshio Kunisawa et. al.

The results of the study is presented on the link budget calculation and the estimation of the signal transmission speed assuming multiband UWB signal transmission from a GSO satellite with 500MHz bandwidth. This article was reported in the 2003 Joint Conference on Satellite Communications (JC-SAT 2003) of IEICE of Japan in Octover 2003 at Tokyo.


Satellite Communications and I
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Kamakura Works, Futaba Ejima

"Satellites are huge products created by many technicians and engineers in various fields and there are dreams and bright aspect in there whereas there are continuous and steady works varying from designing little substrates to satellite integration. I am fascinated to the feature of satellite business by such aspects."


Space Japan Milestones
From Russia with ROCKOT
USEF: Hiroshi Kanai

"On 30th October 2003 at 16:43 local time, ROCKOT launch vehicle soared into the sky from Plesetsk with "roaring sound" like its name in Russian lauguage. It has been 3 years and 5 months since our staff has visited this Plesetsk Cosmodrome for the first time for the preliminary survey as the potential launch service provider for USEF's SERVIS-1 satellite."


Space Japan Milestones
(1)From Russia with ROCKOT
USEF: Hiroshi Kanai

"On 30th October 2003 at 16:43 local time, ROCKOT launch vehicle soared into the sky from Plesetsk with "roaring sound" like its name in Russian lauguage. It has been 3 years and 5 months since our staff has visited this Plesetsk Cosmodrome for the first time for the preliminary survey as the potential launch service provider for USEF's SERVIS-1 satellite."

(2)"Successful Launch of Horizons-1 JSAT / PanAmSat Joint Satellite Operation"
JSAT Corporation

Horizons-1 was successfully launched by the Sealaunch Company, LLC from its equatorial launch site at 154 degrees West longitude, which is about 2,240 km south of Hawaii, at 01:03 p.m. on 1st October 2003 (Japan Standard Time). The "Horizons-1" satellite is jointly owned by JSAT Corporation and PanAmSat Corporation, one of the world's leading satellite operators. This made JSAT one of the first satellite communications providers in Asia with a satellite over North America."


Conference Report
(1)Attending IAC2003
Takashi Iida, Communications Research Labratory

The 54th IAC(54th International Astonautical Congress : IAC2003) was hels in Bremen, Germany for six days during September 29 to October 3, 2003. The outline of this congress is presented.

(2)Report on ISU SSP 2003
Dr. Tadashi Minowa, CRL

Dr. Minowa reports the sixteenth-annual Summer Session Program (SSP03) sponsored by the International Space University (ISU), which was held at the main campus of ISU in Strasbourg, France from 4 July to 8 October.


Topics from Within
Report on JFSC meeting
H. Wakana, Communications Research Laboratory

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Capital Products and Review
A book on satellite communications was published by AIAA from activity in JFSC

Satellite Communications in the 21st Century: Trends and Technologies, edited by T. Iida, J. N. Pelton and E. Ashford. Review: This book describes not only the basic technology information on satellite communications system but also hot topics on the new technology and services such as advanced mobile satellite communication services and broadband Internet communications application. Furthermore, long-range perspectives covering next 30 years are discussed and analyzed and future promising satellite communications systems are proposed. Therefore this book is appropriate not only for the students and technicians learning satellite communications technology but also for the experts operating or developing satellite communications system.


Editor's comment

This is the first issue of Space Japan Review since the new structure with the Chairman of Dr. Takashi Iida and new Board Members started in October. In this Review the two happy news were contained, the success launch of USEF's SERVIS-1 satellite and Successful Launch of Horizons-1. Mr. Jean-Yves Le Gall, CEO Arianespace, stated that "I do believe that the demand for satellite services and the corresponding need for satellites will continue to grow, and while it may never reach the heights projected in the late 1990s, it will certainly stabilize at a somewhat higher level than we've seen recently." Ms. Futaba Ejima, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, described the fascination of manufacturing satellites, in which many technicians and engineers in various fields are involved. We expect your more supports to AIAA Japan Forum on Satellite Communications. (K. S.)





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