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The ConeXpress - Orbital Life Extension Vehicle (CX-OLEV) presents the operators of geostationary communications satellites ("comsats") with a pioneering opportunity to extend the revenue-earning life of their space assets by up to 10 years.
One of the key objectives of the J-ORTIGIA project was to evolve the receiver setup developed in the ORTIGIA framework in terms of performance, RF tuning, and alignment with the DVB-SH standard. Phase 1 encompasses a series of preliminary analysis and Phase 2 the integration of handheld mock-up and vehicular terminals.
The Hylas-1 Project is intended to serve as a pathfinder for a new generation of Ka-band communications satellites and services. The combination of advanced payload technologies and a range of innovative broadband service offerings will provide a unique opportunity to demonstrate and commercialise the potential of Ka-band communications systems.
Flexible antennas are becoming evermore attractive, since the recent developments in wearable computing have opened several possibilities to integrate wireless functions to clothing. The scope of this study is to demonstrate that flexible antennas are feasible in personal satellite communications.
The Integrated Emergency Medicine Network (IEMN) seeks to develop, implement and test a multi-tier emergency service to serve as the basis of a province-wide emergency medicine network. IEMN provides the following emergency response capacities within Newfoundland and Labrador (Canada): giving rural and community health care services direct access to emergency medicine physicians and resources within a province-wide network (with real-time video consultation and medical data transfer facilities), allow continuous communications and patient data transfer
between emergency response staff and the emergency facility during an emergency situation, creating a mobile emergency response facility that can quickly be deployed to a disaster location to extend the facilities and capabilities of the IEMN to the emergency response
personnel.
The Electromagnetic Satellite Analysis Tool (ESAT) project aimed to create a software tool to analyze the radiated susceptibility of the payload to the electromagnetic field in the Communication Module. Leakages from RF units and electromagnetic fields generated by external antennas, which penetrate inside the Communication module through apertures in the satellite structure, are considered.
The main goal of the ULISS project is to prepare the future payloads for Multimedia missions in Ka Band. The project aims to fulfil four main objectives, one of these being the implementation of a new concept called Radio Burst Switching (RBS).
Objective of the project is the development and the qualification of the Eurostar Antenna Tracking System (ATS) functional chain. This includes the architecture design, the system analysis, the control loop design, the FDIR strategy, the software implementation and validation.
The FOSAT project aims to demonstrate the potentials and benefits of fiber optic sensing technologies through a combination of analysis and testing. A demonstrator composed of satellite mockups, instrumented with fiber optic sensor, fiber optic harness and signal processing will be built and tested.
Acknowledging the domains of excellence that the Chinese and Indian space industry has been able to build through ambitious space programmes, the study aims to better understand the background against which this success has been achieved. It will explore the industrial capabilities of China and India in satellite communication and navigation sectors.
The objective is to design, develop and test an Engineering Model of a Xenon Flow Meter with high accuracy across a wide flow range to provide a better prediction of the remaining propellant at mid-life than the current PVT method. A key issue is the severe physical property variation of the xenon over the operational pressure and temperature range, as the xenon can be in gas, liquid or supercritical phase.
In the STOLO project a prototype local oscillator will be developed, based on spintronics. By using a spin torque oscillator instead of classical technologies NanOsc introduces a disruptive technology that is bound to change satellite communication devices in the future.
The 2nd Generation DVB-RCS Standardization Support project aims at supporting the standardisation process for the Next Generation of the DVB Return Channel via Satellite standard, i.e, DVB-RCS-NG.
DIATOOL will be a stand-alone commercial program performing advanced electromagnetic processing of measured antenna data. It will read the measured field and compute the extreme near-field or the currents on the antenna surface, without the fundamental constraints of the traditional measurement systems.
The first targeted market opportunity for the PTIU and LTIU products is the Inmarsat XL payload currently being developed by EADS Astrium UK, which is to be embarked on the first European Alphabus platform. COM DEV has provided similar products for the Inmarsat 4 series of satellites, however these products must now be redesigned to meet the requirements of the new integrated digital processors and the new Alphabus platform interfaces.
The scope of the project was to study an innovative antenna solution able to provide entertainment services in an aeronautical mobile environment. The main requirement was a completely electronic scanning and polarization control on a hemispherical coverage. The
studied antenna was a conformal hemispherical array in which all the dual polarized radiating elements can be electronically controlled in amplitude and phase. To prove the feasibility of the proposed solution, a demonstrator has been designed manufactured and tested.
youDO aims to develop a motorised antenna mount for bi-directional satellite user terminals. The primary purpose of the motorised mount is to aid the process and cost of installing satellite user terminals.
This project studies the security of DVB-RCS systems at the control, management and data planes (referred to as TRANsmission SECurity or TRANSEC, for short), through the identification / analysis of security threats and vulnerabilities, derivation of security requirements and high level definition of the security architectures and of the countermeasure techniques.
The project objective is to provide European and Canadian industry with guidelines for the implementation of Satellite Triple Play Services in emerging countries.
The SASS-2IP project objective is to develop and implement a Satellite Terminal IP Interface
Unit (STIU) for the interconnection of alarm- and
security equipment to satellite interactive terminals,
enhance the SASS signalling protocols and software to
support IP traffic control for any 3rd party security
applications connected to the STIU including the
provisioning of guaranteed bandwidth on-demand with
multiple priority levels (standard, high, emergency) and
validate the functional and operational performance for
an innovative alarm- and surveillance application.
mrStream is dedicated to develop an
application platform for the contribution and distribution
of video and data content to get greater insight into
consumer attitudes and behaviour than is possible from
the techniques and technologies currently used by
Market Research agencies and their clients. The
mrStream applications platform collects, links, interprets
and publishes consumer and social insight data using
advanced media format with high impact potentials for
the end users.
The objective of the study is to investigate a wider design space of congestion control mechanisms compatible with the I-PEP specification for the purpose of accelerating HTTP transfers, while maintaining good performance for generic large-volume TCP transfers.
The objective of the project is to develop a miniature satellite communications user terminal platform known as 'PocketSAT'. This platform is aimed at L-band mobile satcom services, including hand-held, land-mobile and maritime. Phase 3 is to extend the PocketSAT developments in another direction: private packet-data networks operating over leased satellite capacity.
The goal of this project is to assess the technical and business benefits of integrating the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) in Satellite based core telecom networks, and to explore to what extent any recommendations coming from this study can be merged into standardisation activities to allow a broad and open adaptation across the industry.
The main objective of the project is to study and demonstrate that broadband Satcom networks can be seamlessly integrated within an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) based network, both in terms of protocols and performance.
Mobile satellite-based communications systems will be introduced into the markets in increasing numbers. Satellite transponders carrying traffic of such systems demand challenging capabilities both from the transponder payload and from the test systems used to validate them. This project aims to capture the requirements of a generic MTP-RMS that supports testing and verifying mobile communications payloads.
The goal of the ALOA PrePhase-B was to consolidate the system architecture for the ALOA payload, based on the service requirements of Orbcomm Inc. as a major potential customer, as well as to establish a sound business understanding for further development.
The key issue addressed in this project is lower-cost production methods for Ka band waveguide components that satisfy all the functional, mechanical and environmental requirements.
COM Dev will develop Ka band hardware with improved performance in areas such as power rating, bandwidth, frequency (data rate), signal attenuation, mass, reliability and longevity. This technology will support the expanding commercial European Ka band satellite program requirements.
This project developed a verification test bed for DVB-RCS hubs. It is an extension of the Common Test Bed for DVB-RCS terminals, and is based on the VeriSat Terminal Population Emulator. The HTB will be handed over to the same independent test house (CETECOM) responsible for testing and certification of DVB-RCS terminals on behalf of The SatLabs Group.
The proposed project aims to establish the equipment requirements and a modular design concept for a new generation of converters and receivers on C-band and Ku-band.
The objective of the project is to decrease the NRE cost for new or modified products in Saab Space's horn antenna family. The aim is to introduce a new process for the design work.
This project aims at the provision of a Highly Integrated Converter at Ku-band with significantly reduced size, mass, cost and production time compared to today's converters, still meeting the high performance requirements.
This project studies the evolution of broadband satellite access systems towards the NGN infrastructure (allowing multi-services over a single all-IP access platform), focusing on SLA management.
The objectives of this project are to develop a high power 5 kW gridded ion thruster, referred to as the T6 Mk3, and its associated PSCU for Alphabus station keeping.
The Common Test Bed allows the certification of DVB-RCS terminals, which is an important step in achieving terminal interoperability. The outcomes so far have resulted in an important contribution to the development of a compact Hub Emulator well suited to support cost-effective DVB-RCS terminal development.
A SW-tool has been developed which allows the user to optimise the RF performance of smooth or corrugated conical horns for communications and tracking purposes. A horn has been designed, manufactured and tested.
The main goal of this project is to provide a completely operational prototype capable of supplying structured information on the space environment and the effects on spacecraft to assist with satellite maintenance.
