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 Bredford (UK), from October 23 through October 26, 2023.

The 40th ICSSC Colloquium will be held on the 23rd of October 2023.

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 on Communication and navigation services for lunar missions: the ESA Moonlight program, presenter, Pietro Giordano Radio Navigation Department, ESA, The Netherlands.
• Plenary Panel 1, chaired by Badri Younes, Deputy Associate Administrator for Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN), NASA, USA.
• Plenary Panel 2: 10 years of Alphasat Aldo Paraboni Q/V Band Experiment, Mission Evolution and Results, chaired by Tommaso Rossi,University of Rome, Italy, and Michael Schmidt, Joanneum Research, Austria.
• Plenary Panel 3: AI in Communications Satellite Systems, Status and Future Developments, chaired by Ifiok Otung, Director, Bradford-Renduchintala Centre for Space AI, UK.
• 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.
• Oral Sessions
• Special Sessions

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.