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Conference Program

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

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Program Overview
08:00 - 08:45Registration
08:45 - 10:00
Room A
OPENING SESSION

Opening Remarks by:
 - Frank Gargione, Space Systems Consultant, USA
 - Franco Marconicchio, Space Consultant, Italy

Keynote by:
 - Enrico Saggese, President of the Italian Space Agency (ASI), Italy

Overview of NASA Telecom and Navigation Program by:
 - Badri Younes, Deputy Associate Administrator for Space Communication and Navigation of NASA, USA

Ka Band Applications and Services from Dream to Reality: the KaSAT Program by:
 - Giuliano Berretta, President of EUTELSAT Communications, France

10:00 - 10:30Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:15
Room A
SESSION 1: TELECOMMUNICATION APPLICATIONS & SERVICES
Chair: Arduino Patacchini, Eutelsat, France

Room B
SESSION 2: PROPAGATION AND FADE MITIGATION
Chair: Aldo Paraboni, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy

12:15 - 13:30
Room A
SESSION 3: TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS I
Chair: TBD

Room B
SESSION 4: COSMO SKYMED I
Chair: Marco Airaghi, ASI, Italy

13:30 - 14:30Lunch Break
14:30 - 15:45
Room A
8TH BROADSKY WORKSHOP on ON-BOARD PROCESSING: PRESENT STATUS AND FUTURE TRENDS
Chair: Hajime Fukuchi, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan

15:45 - 16:15Coffee Break
16:15 - 17:45
Room A
8TH BROADSKY WORKSHOP (continued)

19:00Welcome Cocktail Reception offered by Telespazio and Thales Alenia Space
Program Overview
08:30 - 09:00Registration
09:00 - 10:30
Room A
SESSION 5: TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS II
Chair: Thomas Butash, BAE Systems, USA

Room B
SESSION 6: EARTH OBSERVATION APPLICATIONS
Chair: Robert Bauer, NASA, USA

10:30 - 11:30Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00
Room A
SESSION 7: TELECOMMUNICATION COMPONENTS I
Chair: Richard Gedney, ECC / ViaSat, USA

Room B
SESSION 8: NAVIGATION SYSTEMS
Chair: Cosimo La Rocca, Finmeccanica, Italy

13:00 - 14:30Lunch Break
14:30 - 16:00
Room A
SESSION 9: EARTH OBSERVATION APPLICATIONS I
Chair: Luciano Guerriero, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy

Room B
SESSION 10: COSMO SKYMED II
Chair: Matteo Piemontese, Thales Alenia Space, Italy

16:00 - 16:30Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:30
Room A
SESSION 11: TELECOMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS
Chair: Mario Caron, CRC - Communications Research Center, Canada

Room B
SESSION 12: OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS
Chair: Naoto Kadowaki, NICT, Japan

20:30Conference Dinner
Program Overview
08:30 - 09:00Registration
09:00 - 10:30
Room A
SESSION 13: NAVIGATION APPLICATIONS
Chair: Mario Blanco, The Mitre, USA

Room B
SESSION 14: TELECOMMUNICATION COMPONENTS
Chair: Domenico Mignolo, ESA, The Netherlands

10:30 - 11:00Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30
Room A
SESSION 15: EARTH OBSERVATION APPLICATIONS II
Chair: Lanfranco Zucconi, Carlo Gavazzi Space, Italy

Room B
SESSION 16: TELECOMMUNICATION COMPONENTS III
Chair: Antonio Vernucci, Space Engineering, Italy

12:30 - 13:15
Room A
CLOSING SESSION

EGNOS and Galileo – The European Navigation Satellite Program
 - Marco Lisi, ESA, The Netherlands

Impact of the FCC Broadband Plan on Satellite Communications
 - Roger Rusch, TelAstra, USA

Closing Remarks by:
 - Frank Gargione, Space Systems Consultant, USA
 - Franco Marconicchio, Space Consultant, Italy
13:15 - 14:30Lunch Break
15:00 - 18:00
Visit to the Carlo Gavazzi Space Plant.

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