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AbstractSummaryThis paper provides an overview of the space segment of the Aldo Paraboni mission on the Alphasat satellite and the technology programme that has developed one of the most powerful geostationary satellites in Europe. The Aldo Paraboni technology demonstration payload, funded by ASI under European Space Agency's Advanced Research in Telecommunications System Programme, was embarked as a hosted payload on the Alphasat satellite, launched on 25 July 2013. The Aldo Paraboni payload is composed of two main elements, an experimental communication payload operating at Q/V bands (COMEX) and a scientific payload formed by 2 beacons at Ka and Q bands (SCIEX). The Aldo Paraboni payload is a key technology element of the Aldo Paraboni Mission, which covers two main objectives: the communication segment of the mission aims at assessing the performance of satellite communication links at Q/V bands and investigating use Fade Mitigation Techniques (FMT, eg, Adaptive Coding and Modulation defined in DVB‐S2 standard), while the scientific segment aims at characterizing in time, space, and frequency the K and Q band radio channel over Europe to permit development and improvement of propagation channels for slant paths.The Aldo Paraboni technology demonstration payload is hosted on the Alphasat satellite, launched on July 25, 2013. This paper provides an overview of the space segment of the Aldo Paraboni mission that is composed by two main elements: a Q/V‐band communication payload and Ka/Q‐band scientific payload. The objectives for the communication mission are the assessment of the performance of satellite communication links at Q/V‐band and the investigation of improvements brought by fade mitigation techniques (eg, adaptive coding and modulation; see DVB‐S2). The objective of the scientific mission is the characterisation of the K and Q band radio channel over Europe in time, space, and frequency. View Figure |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2019 | 10.1002/sat.1283 | Periodicals |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
geostationary, ground stations, large platform, measurement campaign, propagation impairments mitigation techniques, Q, V band, satellite communications, satellite payload, technology demonstration | Space segment,Telecommunications,Computer science,Communications satellite,V band,Geostationary orbit | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
37 | 5 | 1542-0973 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
1 | 0.37 | 0 |
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Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Juan J. Rivera | 1 | 1 | 0.37 |
| Antonio Martellucci | 2 | 21 | 7.45 |
| Philippe Sivac | 3 | 1 | 0.37 |
| Edoardo Benzi | 4 | 1 | 0.37 |
| Alberto Pandolfi | 5 | 1 | 0.37 |
| Domenico de Bernardo | 6 | 1 | 0.37 |
| Stefano Falzini | 7 | 1 | 0.71 |
| Giuseppe Codispoti | 8 | 3 | 1.79 |