Communications System of WINDS Satellite

Antenna System for Land Mobile Satellite Communications

Personal wireless communications is a true success story and has become part of people’s everyday lives around the world. Whereas in the early days of mobile communications Quality of Service (QoS) was often poor, nowadays it is assumed the service will be ubiquitous, of high speech quality and the ability to watch and share streaming video or even broadcast television programs for example is d...

Satellite Communications

We are delighted to bring to you this special issue on satellite communications, which we have prepared as part of the spreading of excellence remit of the satellite communications network of excellence (SatNEx). The SatNEx project, which began in 2004, is funded for five years under the Euro-pean Union's Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) Information Society Technologies (IST) Thematic Area. Led ...

Offshore winds mapped from satellite remote sensing

Inter-Satellite Communications for Small Satellite Systems

Small satellite technology has opened a new era in aerospace engineering by decreasing space mission costs, without greatly reducing the performance. The concept of formation flying using small satellites is becoming popular because of their potential to perform coordinated measurements of remote sensing space missions. The current state of art in satellite communications is a one hop link betw...

Experimental Satellite Quantum Communications.

Quantum communication (QC), namely, the faithful transmission of generic quantum states, is a key ingredient of quantum information science. Here we demonstrate QC with polarization encoding from space to ground by exploiting satellite corner cube retroreflectors as quantum transmitters in orbit and the Matera Laser Ranging Observatory of the Italian Space Agency in Matera, Italy, as a quantum ...