23rd AIAA ICSSC (ICSSC-2005): New Horizons - New Directions

A significant increase in commercial communications satellite orders appears to signal the end of the industry downturn of the past few years. Satellite Digital Radio Broadcasting systems appear to be following on the footsteps of the extraordinarily successful Satellite Digital Television Broadcasting.
New services such as Ka-broadband service to the home, interactive satellite television broadcast, entertainment and Internet services to business and commercial aircraft, and S-band direct audio and video broadcasting from satellites to handheld terminals are already in their initial deployment phases; and L-band broadband services to mobiles will soon be a reality. Satellite navigators are becoming ubiquitous in private automobiles in many developed nations, and this phenomenon is spreading as well to many developing countries.

In the public civil sector, combined navigation and communication services are being considered for inclusion in the European Galileo navigation system. NASA, as well as other space agencies, is considering the development of dedicated data relay satellites to be put into orbit around other planets in the solar system, to relay scientific data back to earth from robotic landers on the surface.

The large-scale terrorist attacks in New York and Madrid have focused the need for higher capacity and more integrated communications systems and information databases to provide real-time intelligence and surveillance information for domestic security and border control. New demands have also been placed on our military infrastructure to update and integrate heritage and new communications systems to collect vastly increased volumes of data from sources such as unmanned reconnaissance aircraft and distributed sensors, process this data and provide it to the warfighter in an integrated, user oriented format with minimum delay. The modern digital battlefields require integrated communications using common protocols to support interoperability, and independence of the physical transport media for enhanced reliability. In this new world, communications satellites provide unique advantages in terms of their survivability, wide coverage and deployment to rapidly support new theaters as needed.

11th Ka and Broadband Communications Conference:

The 11th Ka and Broadband Communications Conference will continue to highlight developments in Ka Band systems, in satellite-aided aircraft navigation and mobile broadband communications at all frequencies.

Objective of the Joint Conference

The objective of the Joint Conference is to provide an in depth exploration of the economic, marketing, technical and regulatory issues affecting these new and planned services. Papers are solicited for both Conferences in the following areas:

· New mobile services
· New broadband services
· New navigation services
· Integration and interoperability of systems
· Communications protocols and networks
· Advances in satellite architecture
· Advances in satellite components
· Advances in Earth terminals
· Propagation and mitigation techniques
· Economic and marketing aspects
· Regulatory issues

In addition, papers are solicited for the ICSSC-2005 in the following areas:

· New broadcast services
· New fixed-satellite services
· New data relay services
· Integrated services for disaster relief
· Interactivity via satellite
· Domestic security applications and architectures
· Military applications and architectures
· Advances in payload subsystems
· User applications