Assessment of Spatial and Temporal Properties of Ka/Q Band Earth-Space Radio Channel Across Europe Using Alphasat Aldo Paraboni
Received: 28 February 2018 Revised: 19 April 2019 Accepted: 27 April 2019 DOI: 10.1002/sat.1313 SPECIAL ISSUE PAPER Assessment of spatial and temporal properties of Ka/Q band earth‐space radio channel across Europe using Alphasat Aldo Paraboni payload Spiros Ventouras1 | Antonio Martellucci11 | Richard Reeves1 | Emal Rumi1 | Fernando P. Fontan2 | Fernando Machado2 | Vicente Pastoriza2 | Armando Rocha3 | Susana Mota3 | Flavio Jorge3 | Athanasios D. Panagopoulos4 | Apostolos Z. Papafragkakis4 | Charilaos I. Kourogiorgas4 | Ondrej Fiser5 | Viktor Pek5 | Petr Pesice5 | Martin Grabner6 | Andrej Vilhar7 | Arsim Kelmendi7 | Andrej Hrovat7 | Danielle Vanhoenacker‐Janvier8 | Laurent Quibus8 | George Goussetis9 | Alexios Costouri9 | James Nessel10 1 STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, RAL Space, Oxford, UK Summary 2 Escola de Enxeñaría de Telecomunicación, The upcoming migration of satellite services to higher bands, namely, the Ka‐ and University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain Q/V‐bands, offers many advantages in terms of bandwidth and system capacity. 3 Dep. Elect. Telec. e Informática, Instituto de However, it poses challenges as propagation effects introduced by the various atmo- Telecomunicações, Aveiro, Portugal 4 School of Electrical and Computer spheric phenomena are particularly pronounced in these bands and can become a Engineering, National Technical University of serious constraint in terms of system reliability and performance. This paper presents Athens, Athens, Greece the goals, organisation, and preliminary results of an ongoing large‐scale European 5 Meteorological Department, Institute of Atmospheric Physics ASCR, Prague, Czech coordinated propagation campaign using the Alphasat Aldo Paraboni Ka/Q band sig- Republic nal payload on satellite, performed by a wide scientific consortium in the framework 6 TESTCOM, Czech Metrology Institute, Prague, Czech Republic of a European Space Agency (ESA) project.
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