Projects

SMM proposes the launch of one or more small-class geostationary satellites, featuring Ka-band spot beam payloads, in order to reduce satellite broadband service costs by an order of magnitude and bring them into line with terrestrial offerings.

The objective of this study is to assess the competitive situation between satellite and terrestrial communications networks in the Location Based Services market in the medium term (2005-2010).

The main objective of this study is to provide the European industry with pragmatic information and guidelines for the implementation of DVB-RCS services in two target regions, Latin America and Africa.

The objective of the activity is to develop an Active Pixel Sensor (APS) based star sensor compliant with the Alphabus/Large Platform Development. The pre-development activities are important to reduce the schedule and technical risk of the overall large platform development. The purpose of this activity is to analyse the economic interest, to develop and to test an elegant breadboard of an APS based star sensor.

The main objective of this study is to explore the grounds for the development and operation of a European stratospheric platform based on a sound analysis of possible service areas - mainly in the area of telecommunications, assessment of available and future technologies, to perform a conceptual design for the best suited platform concept answering the needs of future telecommunication markets.

The objective of this study is to assess the feasibility and commercial viability of a scalable approach using smaller satellites for providing satellite communication to new markets, services and applications.

The objective of this activity is to assess the feasibility of a high-resolution accelerometer in order to increase the station keeping autonomy in relation with the electric engine of the @BUS platform.

The Project will demonstrate the concepts and schemes proposed for the end to end integrated communications scenarios, with focus on the provisioning of QoS aware communication services across heterogeneous domains.

The Objective of the Project is the development of a Study on the current status and the expected evolution of High Definition Television deployments via Satellite in the world, with the aim of identifying which are going to be the potential business development of such new applications in Europe and Canada.

The objective of the project is to develop a compact magneto-optical trap, which can be used as a prototype for a quantum memory based on cold atomic gas for space applications. In the development, special attention is paid to the miniaturisation of the magneto-optical trap to reduce the size, weight and power consumption of the later quantum memory.

Tech2CONNECT, led by CONNECTED, aims to develop a comprehensive IoT narrowband connectivity solution from space. Defining service elements and its configurations, and regulatory compliance in its Definition Phase, the Technology Phase focuses on refining and testing the space and network segments, including an Engineering Model of the payload and the initial implementation of the 5G NB-IoT NTN protocol stack.

The NGHT SmallSAT – Ground Direct to Earth (DTE) Laser Communication project develops a compact, low-cost, DTE laser communications system capable of providing up to 10 Gbps to meet the increasing demand for secure, high-data rate communications systems.

Satellite signal processing using an off-the-shelf AI chipset project is to develop and validate AI-based signal processing techniques for satellite telecommunications such as signal identification, spectrum monitoring, spectrum sharing, and signal demodulation using Off-theShelf AI accelerators.

Ka-band TX and RX beamforming module for low-cost Satcom-On-The-Move (SOTM) earth terminals.

The goal is to develop and demonstrate in-orbit a 5G UE (terminal) nanosatellite subsystem that can be integrated into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites and capable of connecting to 5G networks here on Earth.

The program aims to demonstrate direct 5G broadband access from LEO to small aperture terminals by implementing 3GPP Non-terrestrial Networks (NTN) specifications. The mission includes a feasibility study for 5G broadband via SmallSats, and an in-orbit demonstration of a 12U CubeSat to validate high-throughput, bidirectional K/Ka band connectivity over rural and suburban scenarios

Development of a high performing Q/V Band Direct Quadrature Demodulator RFIC with an initial study of potential demodulator architectures, to be used in a digital beamforming application for future Q/V feeder links operating in the 47.2-52.4 GHz band with the following design implementation, fabrication and validation.

Optical feeder links of satellite constellation networks offer very high data rates and do not require frequency coordination, but can be affected by frequent disruptions due to cloud blockages. This project investigates, designs and demonstrates optical feeder link site-diversity mechanisms for satellite constellation networks to achieve the availability required for telecommunications services.

The IPFS project targets the definition of promising applications and platform reference architecture for next generations of satellites equipped with a suite of cutting-edge autonomous features, also leveraging artificial intelligence techniques. The target application of the IPFS project is to be seen in the context of an E2E Intelligent System that will include space and ground, where the advanced autonomy requirement could be closed more edge or ground, depending on the specific mission or service needs.

Development of critical technologies that are needed for developing jamming detection and mitigation techniques for satellite Internet of Things (IoT) gateways as a counter-measure against security threats. This is done by an enhancement of the already used E-SSA and NB-IoT protocols (being part of the background of the proposers), which will be compared in terms of anti-jamming capabilities.