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Objectives
a) Identify the market opportunities for solutions that would mitigate the effects of interference into satellite receivers,
b) Define solutions, by selecting signal processing techniques, satellite payload architectures and the corresponding system architectures, that could meet the requirements in reducing the effects of interference,
c) Evaluate the costs associated to the implementation and to the operation of a preferred solution,
d) Decide on the opportunity to proceed with further activities in developing and validating such a solution, and should this be decided,
e) Define the content and the programmatic elements (budget, schedule) of a roadmap that could be implemented by ESA in supporting the European and Canadian industry for proposing such a solution.
The focus of this study is on the mitigation of interferences at the satellite up link level and the target time frame for a first implementation and in orbit introduction of the solutions under consideration shall be 2017.
Challenges
The key issues of the Study are:
- Definition and selection of suitable AI/AJ techniques for SATCOM commercial systems/market;
- Trade-off between considered solution to assess performances and implementation cost having as main target the curb of this last;
- Provision of a preliminary design for the implementation of the selected techniques in the three considered SAT commercial scenarios (Ku/BSS-FSS; Ka/FSS and L-C/MSS)
- Definition of a consistent development roadmap covering the period up to 2020.
Plan
The Study activity has been executed along one phase.
