| CONFERENCE PROGRAM OVERVIEW Full Conference Program | |
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
| | 08:30 – 09:00 | Registration | | 09:00 – 09:15 |
Room A - Opening Session Opening Remarks by: Frank Gargione, Space Systems Consultant, USA Franco Marconicchio, Space Consultant, Italy
Special Remarks by:
| | 09:15 – 09:30 |
Room A - Invited Speech Historical Perspective: The SIRIO-1 Satellite, a Precursor of the Commercial Ku-Ka Band Satellite Communications Giorgio Perrotta, SpaceSys, Italy
| | 09:30 – 10:45 |
Room A - Session 1: Earth Observation Systems Chair: Luciano Guerriero, University of Bari, Italy
| | 10:45 – 11:15 | Coffee Break | | 11:15 – 12:45 |
Room A Session 2: Ka Band Becoming Reality for Consumer and Professional Services Chair: Arduino Patacchini, Eutelsat, France
| | 12:45 – 14:30 | Lunch Break | | 14:30 – 15:45 |
Room A - 7th BroadSky Workshop on “Is Space Safe Enough?” Chair: Hajime Fukuchi, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Room B - Session 3: Military and Dual Use Systems and Applications I Chair: Pietro Finocchio, TELEDIFE, Italian Ministry of Defence, Italy
| | 15:45 – 16:15 | Coffee Break | | 16:15 – 17:45 |
Room A - 7th BroadSky Workshop on “Is Space Safe Enough?” (continued)
Room B - Session 4: Propagation and Fade Mitigation Aldo Paraboni, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy
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18:00
| Visit to the Skylogic Mediterraneo Teleport Plant, Welcome Cocktail and Excursion in Cagliari and surroundings. | |
Thursday, September 24, 2009
| | 08:30 – 09:00 | Registration | | 09:00 – 10:00 |
Room A - Session 5: Earth Observation Applications I Chair: Lanfranco Zucconi, Carlo Gavazzi Space, Italy
Room B - Session 6: Navigation: Galileo/GPS Applications Chair: Cosimo La Rocca, Finmeccanica, Italy
| | 10:00 – 11:00 | Room A - Session 7: Earth Observation Applications II Chair: Fausto Perri, e-GEOS, Italy
Room B - Session 8: Military and Dual Use Systems and Applications II Chair: Thomas Butash, BAE Systems, USA | | 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee Break | | 11:30 – 12:45 |
Room A - Session 9: Broadband Network Systems Chair: Richard Gedney, ECC / ViaSat, USA
Room B - Session 10: Communication Protocols I Chair: Antonio Vernucci, Space Engineering, Italy
| | 12:30 – 14:30 | Lunch Break | | 14:30 – 15:45 |
Room A - Session 11: Earth Observation Systems II Chair: Giuseppe Angino, Thales Alenia Space, Italy
Room B -Session 12: Navigation: Galileo/GPS Applications Chair: Mario Blanco, Mitre, USA
| | 15:45 – 16:15 | Coffee Break | | 16:15 – 17:30 |
Room A - Session 13: Satellite Architectures Chair: Wallace Dan Williams, Space Consultant, USA
Room B - Session 14: Satellite-aided Navigation Chair: Mario Caron, CRC – Communications Research Center, Canada | | 20:00 – 22:30 | Conference Dinner | |
Friday, September 25, 2009 | | 08:30 – 09:00 | Registration | | 09:00 – 10:30 |
Room A - Session 15: Optical Communications Chair: Naoto Kadowaki, NICT, Japan
Room B - Session 16: Antennas Chair: Roberto J. Acosta, NASA Glenn Research Center, USA
| | 10:30 -11:00 | Coffee Break | | 11:00 – 12:30 |
Room A - Session 17: Advances in Components Chair: Marco Brancati, Telespazio, Italy
Room B - Session 18: Communications Protocols II Chair: Roberto Somma, Thales Alenia Space, Italy
| | 12:30 – 12:45 |
Room A Invited Speech: Where is Ka-band service headed? Roger Rusch, TelAstra, USA
| | 12:45 – 13:00 |
Room A - Closing Session
Closing Remarks
| | 13:00 – 14:30 | Lunch Break | | 15:00 – 18:00 |
Visit to the construction site of the Sardinia Radio Telescope. |
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