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Online Journal of Space Communication

 

The Online Journal of Space Communication is a cross-disciplinary scholarly publication designed to advance space communication as a profession and as an academic discipline.

Individual issues provide in-depth examination of matters of importance to satellite and space communication in terms of:

  • Education and Manpower Development
  • Innovation and Technology
  • Economy and Business Development
  • Services and Applications
  • Regulation and Public Policy
  • Social Impact
  • Regional Development

The Journal's goal is to be a credible record and repository for developments of public significance in satellite and space communication, and to promote critical analysis of those developments. Each Journal issue is designed to make complex historical, technical, economic, regulatory and social issues more accessible and understandable. All articles are peer-reviewed with ancillary materials and historical perspectives included to stimulate discussion and set a future agenda.

Issue No. 18: International SunSat Design Competitions (Fall 2013 / Summer 2016)
Issue No. 17: Visualizing Space Solar Power (Fall 2012 / Fall 2014)
Issue No. 16: Solar Power Satellites (Winter 2010)
Issue No. 15: Women in Space (Spring 2009)
Issue No. 14: Satellites and Health (Winter 2009)
Issue No. 13: Commercialization of Space (Winter 2008)
Issue No. 12: The Role of Satellites in Distance Education (Spring 2007)
Issue No. 11: Space Systems Tutorial (Fall 2006)
Issue No. 10: Emergency Communication (Spring 2006)
Issue No. 9: Global Navigation Satellite System (Winter 2006)
Issue No. 8: Regional Development: Indonesia (Fall 2005)
Issue No. 7: VSAT Communication(Fall 2004)
Issue No. 6: Satellite Security (Winter 2004)
Issue No. 5: Satellites Address the Digital Divide (Fall 2003)
Issue No. 4: Satellite Communication in Canada (Spring 2003)
Issue No. 3: Remote Sensing of Earth via Satellite (Winter 2003)
Issue No. 2: NASA's Advanced Communications Technology Satellite [ACTS] (Fall 2002)
Issue No. 1: Education and Training (Winter 2002)

 

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SunSat Design Competition 2015-2016 Second Place Winner – Team Pathway to Power : Wireless Power Transfer
Javier Tandazo, Ethan Wong, Curtis Waggoner, John Guggenheim, and Alexander Carter

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SunSat Design Competition 2014-2015 Third Place Winner – Team Martian: Space Solar Power Test Bed
Jeremy Straub, Tristan Plante, Benjamin Kading, Alex Holland, Landon Klein, and Jordan Forbord

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SunSat Design Competition 2014-2015 First Place Winner – Team CAST: Multi-Rotary Joints SPS
Xinbin Hou, Meng Li, Lili Niu, Lu Zhou, Ying Chen, Zhengai Cheng, and Haipeng Ji

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SunSat Design Competition 2013-2014 Third Place Winner – Team University of North Dakota: Nano SSP Satellite
Corey Bergsrud, Robert Bernaciak, Ben Kading, John McClure, Jeremy Straub, Subin Shahukhal, and Karl Williams

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Issue 16: Contributors
Don Flournoy and Ralph Nansen

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China Walks the US-India Space Solar Power Dream
Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan and Rahul Prakash

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The Spaceplane Equation
Raghavan Gopalaswami

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Solar Power Satellite Development: Advances in Modularity and Mechanical Systems
W. Keith Belvin, John T. Dorsey, and Judith J. Watson

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A US-India Power Exchange Towards a Space Power Grid
Brendan Dessanti, Nicholas Picon, Carlos Rios, Shaan Shah, and Narayanan Komerath

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Deploying Sunsats
Philip K. Chapman

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Space Solar Power Aids Space Settlement
Gaurav Kumar, Deepak Talwar, HarmanJot Singh Walia, Mahiyal B. Singh, Kaenat Seth, Ishaan Mehta, and Navdeep Singh Makkar

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Space Solar Rectifying Antenna On Earth
Corey Bergsrud, Timothy Dito, Matthew Anderson, Matthew Clausing, and Chase Freidig

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From Uranium Enrichment To Renewable Energy
Harold Bon, Solomon Brown, Michael Cisneros, Kent Engel, Tyler Goldberg, Matt Kissel, Alexa Krivoniak, Brandon Lutz, Zach Reese, Amanda Roberts, Colin Stonerook, Zoe Zeszut, and Anthony Zoccola

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Space Solar Power with SunSynchronous Orbits
Michael Blohm, Alan Guy, Kyle Perkins, Adam Roades, and Samantha Williams

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Solar Sails: Towards An Early Profitable PowerSat
Jake Coggiano, John Dees, Ryan Heitkemper, and Lauren Valko

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Space Solar Power for Agriculture
Max Alvarez, Alex Wiseman, Alex Welsh, Rashmi Sharma, Adedayo Ogundimu, and Brian Woods

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Millimeter Wave Space Power Grid
Brendan Dessanti, Nicholas Picon, Carlos Rios, and Shaan Shah

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Solar Power Satellites Research in China
Ji Gao, Xinbin Hou, and Li Wang

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Space Solar Power for Seawater Desalination
Michael Blohm, Kristen Ohlemeier, Kyle Perkins, Adam Roades, and Matthew Wulker

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Space Solar Power for Disaster Relief
Kristin Brumley, Huyen Nguyen, Erik Alexeff, Nadiah Mukhiar, Dyah Hening, and Steve Buchanan

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Wireless Transfer of Power: Proposal for A Five-Nation Demonstration by 2020
Brendan Dessanti, Narayanan Komerath, and Don Flournoy

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Multi-Nation WPT Demonstration Experiments
Max Alvarez, Harold Bon, Jason Butler, Jimmy Clark, Kent Engle, Ben Felix, Tyler Goldberg, Colin Mercer, Shelby Roades, Zoe Seszut, Michael Stephens, Jiexiong Zhang, Anthony Zoccola, Chinar Patel, Ben Leon, Scott Bennet, Roger Lascorz, Oscar Pierre, Somil Shah, Rahim Panjawani, Nicole Dowling, and Natasha Barbely

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Sunbeams from Space Mirrors Feeding Solar Farms on the Ground at Dusk and Dawn
Tyler Goldberg, Zoe Zeszut, Steve Larkin, Colin Mercer, Shelby Roades, Jimmy Clark, Anthony Zoccola, and Logan Hayes

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Creative Visualization of Space Solar Power
Steve Bonahoom, Stephen Buchannan, Garrett Clem, Connie Nemec, Jacqueline Deavenport, S. Phanuthep, Victor Sherrick, Jason Showalter, Jessica Staub, Michael Stephens, Douglas Trein, David Young, and Joey Zhang

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Remote Sensing and Human Health: New Sensors and New Opportunities
Louisa R. Beck, Bradley M. Lobitz, and Byron L. Wood

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Opportunities And Challenges of E-Health and Telemedicine Via Satelite
C. Dario, A. Dunbar, F. Feliciani, M. Garcia-Barbero, S. Giovannetti, G. Graschew, A. Güell, A. Horsch, M. Jenssen, L. Kleinebreil, R. Latifi, M. M. Lleo, P. Mancini, M. T.J. Mohr, P. Ortiz García, S. Pedersen, J. M. Pérez-Sastre, and A. Rey

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Satellite Imagery in the Study and Forecast of Malaria
David J. Rogers, Sarah E. Randolph, Robert W. Snow, and Simon I. Hay

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A Review of Telemedicine in China
Zhelong Wang and Hong Gu

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Telehealth Policy: Looking for Global Complementarity
Richard E. Scott, M. Faruq U. Chowdhury, and Sunil Varghese

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(Session 4) Questions and Answers with the Presenters
Del Smith, Jones Day, and Leonard David

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(Session 3) Intelsat
Phillip L. Spector

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(Session 2) Questions and Answers with the Presenters
Joseph N. Pelton and Douglas Heydon

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Conference Program
D. Flournoy

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Satellite-based Distance Education in India
Sanjay Jasola and Ramesh Sharma

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White Paper on Emergency Communications
Space and Advanced Communications Research Institute Space and Advanced Communications Research Institute

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Issue 10: From the Guest Editors
Joseph Pelton and Neil Helm

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Issue 9: Contributors
D. Flournoy and Randall Johnson

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New U.S. GPS Policy From a European Perspective
Martin U. Ripple and Alexis Vidal

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Receiver Performance for an Enhanced DGPS Data Channel
Gregory Johnson, Michael Kuhn, Peter F. Swaszek, Richard Hartnett, and Per Enge

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Sea Surface Wave Information Using GPS Sea Reflected Signal - Wave Height
Shigeyuki Okuda, Yasuo Arai, and Nobuyoshi Kouguchi

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Geosynchronous Satellite Use of GPS
Jennifer L. Ruiz and Charles H. Frey

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Galileo in Maritime Applications
Stig Erik Christiansen, John Klepsvik, Michael Fairbanks, Alan Grant, Nick Ward, and Marko Jandrisits

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Range-Extended Post-Processing Kinematic (PPK) in a Marine Environment
Marcelo Santos, Felipe Nievinski, Karen Cove, Robert Kingdon, and Dave Wells

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The GIANT Project
Luis Chocano, Javier Pérez, and Miguel Aguilera

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Helicopter Ship Board Landing System
Tom Ford, Mark Hardesty, and Mike Bobye

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Intelligent In-Vehicle Device Based on ARM-Linux Techniques
Xiaoqing Yue, Qishan Zhang, and Qing Chang

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Deflection Monitoring of the Forth Road Bridge by GPS
Gethin Wyn Roberts, Chris Brown, and Xiaolin Meng

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The Possibility of Precise Positioning in the Urban Area
Nobuaki Kubo, Ryosuke Shibasaki, and Akio Yasuda

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NAVIO - A Navigation Service for Pedestrains
Günther Retscher and Michael Thienelt

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Polar Air Traffic Control
Israel Greenfeld and Ron Sicker

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Next Generation Differential GPS Architecture
A. Cleveland, D. Wolfe, M. Parsons, B. Remondi, K. Ferguson, and M. Albright

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Operating EGNOS
Ashley W. Lyon, Jon Westbrook, and Umberto Guida

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Issue 9: From the Guest Editors
Paul Bobrowski and Qishan Zhang

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Issue 8: Contributors
Sukarno Abdulrachman

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The Launch of PALAPA (video)
Sukarno Abdulrachman

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Connecting Indonesia: Serving the Unserved
Chrisma Albandjar and Hilman A. Rasyid

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Issue 8: From the Guest Editor
Sukarno Abdulrachman

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Issue 7: Contributors
David Hartshorn and Martin Jarrold

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Overview: A+B+C = VSAT
Martin Jarrold

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Overview: Politics and Technology Converge: Case Studies on the Effects of Regulatory Reform on VSAT Adoption in Developing Countries
Emmanuel Adugu, Kwasi Boateng, D. Flournoy, Eric Gavua, Wencelous Kaswoswe, and Miao Zhang

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Issue 7: From the Guest Editors
David Hartshorn and Martin Jarrold

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Issue 4: Contributors
W.M. (Mac) Evans

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Market Analysis
W.M. (Mac) Evans

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CRC Perspective
Gerry Turcotte

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Managing Protein in Spring Wheat with Aerial and Satellite Imagery
Dennis L. Wright Jr., Glen Ritchie, V. Philip Rasmussen, R. Douglas Ramsey, and Doran Baker

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Commodity Computing Clusters at Goddard Space Flight Center
John E. Dorband, Josephine Palencia, and Udaya Ranawake

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Spectrometry and Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Urban Road Infrastructure
Martin Herold, Margaret E. Gardner, Val Noronha, and Dar A. Roberts

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Introduction to Remote Sensing: Online Resources
Hugh Bloemer and Dale Quattrochi

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A Remote Sensing Tutorial
Nicholas M. Short

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Issue 3: From the Guest Editors
Hugh Bloemer and Dale Quattrochi

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Edward Ashford
Edward Ashford

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Jeffrey Grant
Jeffrey Grant

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Edward Fitzpatrick
Edward Fitzpatrick

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Tom Brackey
Tom Brackey

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Joseph Rothenberg
Joseph Rothenberg

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Gerald Barna
Gerald Barna

 

Optimization of ATM and Legacy LAN for High Speed Satellite Communications
W. Schmidt, J. Tri, M. Mitchell, S. Levens, M. Wondrow, L. Huie, R. Martin, B. Gilbert, and B. Khandheria

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Advanced Shipboard Communications Demonstrations with ACTS
Roy A. Axford, T. C. Jedrey, and M. Rupar

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A Ka-Band High Data Rate Shipboard Satellite Terminal
M. Rupar, David Beering, and D. Hoder

 

Mobile Experiments using ACTS
Frank Gargione, B. Abbe, M.J. Agan, T. C. Jedrey, and P. Sohn

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ACTS 118x Final Report High-Speed TCP Interoperability Testing
W. Ivancic, M. Zernic, D. Hoder, D. Brooks, David Beering, and A. Welch

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Survey of Advanced Applications Over ACTS
Robert Bauer and Paul McMasters

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Rain Attenuation Model Comparison and Validation
Charles E. Mayer and Bradley E. Jaeger

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ACTS Propagation Experiment: Experiment Design, Calibration, and Data Preparation and Archival
Robert K. Crane, Xuhe Wang, D. B. Westenhaver, and Wolfhard J. Vogel

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Historical Development: ACTS Technology
Richard Gedney, Ron Schertler, and Frank Gargione

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Historical Development: ACTS Program Formulation
Richard Gedney, Ron Schertler, and Frank Gargione

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White Paper Report: Needs in Space Education for the 21st Century—Research, Higher Education, Training and Public Policy
Randall Johnson, Joseph Pelton, Henry Hertzfeld, Don Flournoy, and Hussein J. Hussein