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Full Paper Submission Deadline September 15, 2023

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Bradford (UK): October 23 - 26, 2023

The 28th Ka and Broadband Communications Conference (Ka) and the 40th International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC) and its Colloquium, the two most influential technical conferences on satellite systems, will be jointly held in Bradford (UK), from October 23 through October 26, 2023.

The 40th ICSSC Colloquium on Direct Satellite to Cellular Mobile Services, will be held on the 23rd of October 2023. The topic of Satellite-to-Cell, or Direct-to-Mobile Service has been a rapidly evolving ecosystem and is a timely next step building upon on last year’s colloquium topic on Megaconstellations. In the interest of our target international audience.
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Both Conference and Colloquium will be held only in its traditional in-person format.

The Joint Conference under the theme: Artemis: Advancing Game Changing Communications and Navigation Technology, will feature:

  • Keynote 1, on ARTEMIS Mission Update by Steve Creech Moon to Mars Program Office Deputy, NASA, USA
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  • Plenary Panel 1, Artemis: Advancing Game Changing Communications and Navigation Technology, chaired by Badri Younes, Deputy Associate Administrator for Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN), NASA, USA.
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  • Keynote 2, on Communication and navigation services for lunar missions: the ESA Moonlight program, presenter, Pietro Giordano, Radio Navigation Department, ESA, The Netherlands.
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  • Plenary Panel 2: on 3GPP Lunar Comm and Navigation, chaired by Greg Heckler, Commercial Communications Services Division Director, SCaN Program, NASA, USA
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  • Plenary Panel 3: Non-Terrestrial Networks: Systems and Services from 5G to 6G, chaired by Barry Evans,, University of Surrey, UK.
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  • Special Session: 10 years of Alphasat Aldo Paraboni Q/V Band Experiment, Mission Evolution and Results, chaired by Tommaso Rossi, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy, and Giorgia Parca, ASI, Italy.
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  • Panel Session on NASA Communication Services Project (CSP), Chaired by Peter J. Schemmel, Deputy Chief of Space Communications and Spectrum Management Office and Manager of Communications Services Project (CSP), NASA, USA.
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  • 19th BroadSky Workshop, chaired by Naoto Kadowaki, NICT, Japan.
  • 9th General Assembly of Aldo Paraboni Experimenters Group, chaired by Carlo Riva, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy and Antonio Martellucci, ESA, The Netherlands.
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  • Oral Sessions
  • Special Sessions


CALL FOR PAPERS

Prospective Authors are invited to submit papers to either Ka or ICSSC in all topics of Satellite Telecommunications, Exploration, Navigation, Propagation and Earth Observation included in the 2023 Call for Papers.

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IMPORTANT DATES

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ABSTRACT DUE

May 15, 2023

June 15, 2023

02
ABSTRACT NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE

June 30, 2023

July 10, 2023

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PAPER DUE

September 15, 2023

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Publication of the 6 best papers presented in the 38th Ka Conference
Publication of the 6 best papers presented in the 38th Ka Conference

The Ka Conference Organizing Committee is glad to inform that this year the 6 best papers presented in the Ka Conference Oral Sessions will be published in the Special Issue of the International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networks, edited by Prof Barry Evans.

The Selection Committee, chaired by Prof Barry Evans, and composed by Riccardo de Gaudenzi, Naoto Kadowaki, James Nessel and Carlo Riva, will select the 6 best papers to be published in the Special Issue.

(On the left Prof Barry Evans)


Conference Format
Conference Format

With the expectation that Covid restrictions will continue to progressively disappear, the Conference Organizing Committee decided that the Conference will be held in its traditional in-person format.

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