Open challenges in TT&C: The control of mega-constellations and IoT for Earth Observation

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The TT&C is a critical function that ensures the spacecraft system operates properly, by sending Telecommand, receiving Telemetry, and doing tracking for the orbit determination.

Although the TT&C engineering for LEO satellites is well consolidated, when it comes to the design of TT&C subsystems for low-latency and large networks there are several open research directions.

This seminar will provide an overview of the main challenges that are faced when designing the TT&C for such kind of networks, taking as main reference Mega-constellations and IoT for the Earth Observation.

The level of technical details will be provided in a style to help attendance to get familiar with the topic, thus making the seminar accessible also to engineers outside the specialty of TT&C.


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  • Date: 06 Dec 2023
  • Time: 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
  • All times are (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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  • Starts 15 October 2023 06:59 PM
  • Ends 05 December 2023 02:00 PM
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Dr. Andrea Modenini Dr. Andrea Modenini of European Space Agency (ESA), at the European Space Research and Technological Centre (ESTEC)

Biography:

Andrea Modenini received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Parma in January 2014. Since March 2015, he has been with the European Space Agency (ESA), currently working as a TT&C Communications Systems Engineer, supporting ESA Earth Observation and Scientific satellite missions, research and development of TT&C units, techniques, including those for unmanned aerial vehicles. He is also contributing to the education in the field of TT&C as a tutor of ESA trainees. Finally, he is involved in several standardization activities for satellite TT&C in the framework of ECSS, SFCG, and CCSDS. For the latter, he is the Chair of the Coding & Synchronization Working Group. 

Address:South Holland, Netherlands

Dr. Gunes Karabulut Kurt Dr. Gunes Karabulut Kurt of Polytechnique Montreal

Biography:

Gunes Karabulut Kurt is a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in New Frontiers in Space Communications and Associate Professor at Polytechnique Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada. She is also an adjunct research professor at Carleton University. Gunes  received the B.S. degree with high honors in electronics and electrical engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkiye, in 2000 and the M.A.Sc. and the Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Ottawa, ON, Canada, in 2002 and 2006, respectively. She worked in different technology companies in Canada and Turkiye, between 2005 and 2010. From 2010 to 2021, she was a professor at Istanbul Technical University. Gunes is a Marie Curie Fellow and has received the Turkish Academy of Sciences Outstanding Young Scientist (TÜBA-GEBIP) Award in 2019. She is serving as the secretary of IEEE Satellite and Space Communications Technical Committee,  the chair of the IEEE special interest group entitled “Satellite Mega-constellations: Communications and Networking” and also as an editor in IEEE journals. She is a member of the IEEE WCNC Steering Board and a Distinguished Lecturer of Vehicular Technology Society Class of 2022. 

Address:Montreal, Canada