Programme
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4th ESA Workshop on Advanced Flexible Telecom Payloads |
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Day 1 - Monday 4 March |
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13:30 |
13:45 |
Opening |
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13:45 |
15:30 |
Operators Panel |
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15:30 |
15:50 |
Coffee Break |
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15:50 |
17:35 |
Manufacturers Panel |
Ben Stocker - SSTL |
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17:45 |
19:15 |
Welcome Cocktail |
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Day 2- Tuesday 5 March |
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Session 1: Flexible Payload and System Architectures |
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09:30 |
09:50 |
D1P1 |
Modular Payload solutions for Security and Flexibility needs on small to large sizes platforms |
Andrea Suriani (Thales Alenia Space Italy) |
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09:50 |
10:10 |
D1P2 |
Fractionation, a new solution for flexible Very High Throughput Satellites |
Jean-Didier Gayrard (Thales Alenia Space France) |
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10:10 |
10:30 |
D1P3 |
On-board MIMO processing and nonlinearities compensation in the 5G era |
Thomas Delamotte (Bundeswehr University Munich) |
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10:30 |
10:50 |
D1P4 |
High Throughput Satellite (HTS) Capacity Improvement via Selective Interference Minimization |
Nader Alagha (ESA) |
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10:50 |
11:10 |
Coffee Break |
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Session 2: Digital on board processors and related technologies |
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11:10 |
11:30 |
D2P01 |
A New Generation of on Board Digital Processor |
Raúl Regada (Thales Alenia Space Spain) |
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11:30 |
11:50 |
D2P02 |
High Performances Flexible Integrated Digital Processor Solution For Low Granularity Needs |
Vivien Enjolras (Thales Alenia Space France) |
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11:50 |
12:10 |
D2P03 |
VHTS Digital Transparent Processor Solution - the key answer to a fast-growing civil market |
Vivien Enjolras (Thales Alenia Space France) |
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12:10 |
12:30 |
D2P04 |
Fully Flexible and in Flight Reconfigurable Telecom Processor |
Raúl Regada (Thales Alenia Space Spain) |
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12:30 |
12:50 |
D2P05 |
Using the Fraunhofer On-Board Processor for Powerful, Adaptable, and Flexible Satellite Communication |
Florian Rittner (Fraunhofer Institute) |
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12:50 |
13:50 |
Lunch Break |
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Session 3: Digital on board processors and related technologies |
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13:50 |
14:10 |
D2P06 |
On-board Signal Processing Platform: Delivering the first FM |
Nicolas Huot (Antwerp Space) |
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14:10 |
14:30 |
D2P07 |
Software-Defined Digital Telecom Payload for LEO Constellations Using RC256 |
Ran Ginosar (Ramon Chips) |
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14:30 |
14:50 |
D2P09 |
HILINK. High Rate, Flexible Command and Monitoring Equipment for Digital Telecom Payloads |
Raúl Regada (Thales Alenia Space Spain) |
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14:50 |
15:10 |
D2P10 |
AI and Machine Learning RC64-Based Digital Processor for Interference Management in Telecom Satellites |
Ran Ginosar (Ramon Chips) |
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15:10 |
15:30 |
D2P11 |
High-performance programmable DSP core for radiation-hard many-core System-on-Chip |
Gerard Rauwerda (Technolution B.V.) |
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15:30 |
14:30 |
Coffee Break |
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Session 4: Reconfigurable Antennas and related technologies I |
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14:30 |
14:50 |
D2P12 |
Efficient Active Antenna Architectures for Future Flexible Payloads |
Thomas Glyn (Airbus) |
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14:50 |
15:10 |
D2P13 |
The Multi-Functional Payload Based on Rotman-Lens Beamforming Network |
Petar Jankovic (ESA) |
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15:10 |
15:30 |
D2P14 |
Advanced feed chain for direct radiating array antennas at Ku-band |
Gonzalo Crespo (Anteral) |
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15:30 |
15:50 |
D2P15 |
Coupling determination between active transmitting and receiving array antennas |
J. Ignacio Echeveste (Airbus) |
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15:50 |
16:10 |
Coffee Break |
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Session 5: Reconfigurable Antennas and related technologies II |
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16:10 |
16:30 |
D2P16 |
Modular design and results of building blocks of the beamforming network and combination for a wide band FSS Ku band reconfigurable and active Multi-beam Antenna |
Adrián Martín González (Airbus) |
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16:30 |
16:50 |
D2P17 |
Reconfigurable Unit Cell for dual-polarized transmitarrays |
Dmitry Zelenchuk (Queen's University Of Belfast) |
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16:50 |
17:10 |
D2P18 |
Study of X band multibeam steerable antenna for Lunar Orbit Platform - Gateway (LOP-G) |
Cesar Dominguez (Airbus) |
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18:00 |
22:00 |
Conference Dinner |
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Day - Wednesday 6 March |
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Session 6: RF equipment I |
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09:20 |
09:40 |
D3P01 |
Miniaturizing Millimeter Wave TWTAs |
Diana Gamzina (Slac National Accelerator Laboratory ) |
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09:40 |
10:00 |
D3P02 |
NEO Traveling Wave Tube concept for flexible telecom payloads |
Frédéric André (Thales AVS) |
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10:00 |
10:20 |
D3P03 |
A Flexible and Adaptive Q/V-band Feeder Link for Broadband Telecommunications Satellites |
Marco Lisi (ESA) |
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10:20 |
10:40 |
D3P04 |
RF performance comparison of X-band GaN vs. GaAs SSPAs in multi-carrier operation mode for flexible payloads |
Gorka Rubio-Cidre (Airbus) |
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10:40 |
11:00 |
D3P05 |
Non-linearity assessment of SSPA-based active antennas by means of a time-domain correlation method |
Salvatore D'addio (ESA) |
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11:00 |
11:20 |
D3P10 |
Flexible Ka-Band Down-Converter EQM for Satellite Communication |
Reinhard Kulke (IMST GmbH) |
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11:20 |
11:40 |
Coffee Break |
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Session 7: RF Equipment II |
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11:40 |
12:00 |
D3P06 |
Fast Switching Matrix Development for VHTS Satellite |
Eric Vourch (Thales Alenia Space France) |
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12:00 |
12:20 |
D3P07 |
The Benefits of Beam Hopping using Ferrite Switches for Very High Throughput Satellites (VHTS) |
John Ascroft (Honeywell Aerospace ) |
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12:20 |
12:40 |
D3P08 |
A continuously tunable Ku-band third order evanescent waveguide filter based on varicap diodes |
Antonio Romera Pérez (Technical University Of Cartagena) |
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12:40 |
13:00 |
D3P09 |
Tunable Filters with a Constant Absolute Bandwidth Tuned Using a Single Tuning Element |
Raafat Mansour (University Of Waterloo) |
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Day - Wednesday 6 March |
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Session 8: Photonic I |
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09:20 |
09:40 |
D3P11 |
OPTIMA - Towards Demonstration of Flexible Photonic Telecom Payload |
Javad Anzalchi (Airbus) |
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09:40 |
10:00 |
D3P12 |
Microwave photonics enabled flexible telecommunication payloads |
Valentín Polo Ramírez (Das Photonics, S.L.) |
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10:00 |
10:20 |
D3P13 |
Integrated Photonic Circuit Building Blocks for Future Flexible Photonic Payloads |
Amin Abbasi (Antwerp Space/OHB) |
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10:20 |
10:40 |
D3P14 |
Optical Switch Matrix development for advanced concepts of Photonic based flexible Telecom Payloads |
Charlie Koechlin (Sodern) |
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10:40 |
11:00 |
D3P15 |
Photonics based oscillators in the GHz to 10s of GHz range for telecom applications |
Stefan Kundermann (CSEM SA) |
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11:00 |
11:20 |
D3P16 |
Performance and radiation testing of fiber optic transceivers for high-speed digital and RF signal transmission onboard spacecraft |
Ron Logan (Glenair Inc.) |
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11:20 |
11:40 |
Coffee Break |
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Session 9: Flexible Payload/System analysis, simulation and optimization tools |
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11:40 |
12:00 |
D1P5 |
Development of a Modular Simulation Tool for Flexible Payloads Design and Benchmark of Antenna Architectures for a Ka-band Broadband LEO Mission |
Florian Vidal (Thales Alenia Space France) |
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12:00 |
12:20 |
D1P6 |
HoTSPOT v4.x – System Performance Optimization extended to Multi-Beam Payload Architectures based on Active Antennas |
Piero Gabellini (Space Engineering) |
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12:20 |
12:40 |
D1P7 |
System Level Simulator for Advanced Flexible Payload Performance Analysis |
Jani Puttonen (Magister Solutions Ltd) |
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12:40 |
13:00 |
D1P8 |
Power-Pooling Beam-Forming Synthesis for Increased Performance Efficiency of Active Transmit Array Antennas under Reconfiguration |
Piero Gabellini (Space Engineering) |
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