July 23, 2007
Final copy-ready papers due
September 24-26, 2007
Conference dates
Conference Scope
The Ka and Broadband Conference was started to
publicize the technology and the results achieved by Italsat, ACTS and ETS,
programs financed by the space agencies of Italy, the United States and Japan
and aimed at advancing the state of the art in satellite broadband
communications.
The conference quickly became the focal point of the
new developments in satellite advances at Ka Band, and the forum for the
presentation of the many global and regional Ka Band satellite systems proposed
in the late nineties.
When the promise of those systems did no materialize
as expected, the Conference’s emphasis was expanded to include the topics of
mobile broadband communications and satellite-aided navigation, but no new
advances in the field of commercial satellite communications were presented
because of the lack of investment by the industry and lack of support by the
space agencies.
There have been advances, however, in the military
and dual use applications in the field of telecommunications, navigation and
earth observation. Therefore we have decided to include in the 2007 conference
these new areas of activity so as to be able to continue presenting the latest
advances in the technology and use of innovative satellite
systems.
In new military and military and civil (dual use)
systems a lot of effort is being spent by the US DOD to modernize the GPS
navigation constellation, to develop net-centric capabilities and the Wideband
Gapfiller and XTAR satellites.
In Europe, ESA is proceeding with the development of
the Galileo navigation constellation.
The French DOD recently launched the Syracuse military
communication payload and is developing the Pleiades dual use high-resolution
optical Earth Observation system to be launched in 2009 to complement the
Italian CosmoSkyMed dual use X band observation constellation scheduled for
launch at the end of 2007.
The Italian DOD operates the military
telecommunication satellite SICRAL, soon to be augmented by SICRAL II.
Germany
is close to launching the TerraSAR-X followed in 2009 by TanDem-X observation
satellites for military and government agencies.
Finally, England is developing Skynet for military
communications and Topsat for earth observation.
The Conference is therefore soliciting papers in
these new areas along with the traditional areas covered in the past:
• Military and
Dual Use Systems and Applications
• Satellite-Aided Navigation and related
applications
• Mobile Broadband Services
• New and Updated Broadband Flight
Systems
• Advances in Components and Ground Systems
• Satellite Architectures
• Communications Protocols
• Propagation and Fade Mitigation
• Marketing and Regulatory Issues
