This project is aimed at providing to ESA a comprehensive understanding and perspective on the developing market for multimedia satellite services, within the context of the broader multimedia industry.

A new generation of PCU shall be developed in order to improve its competitiveness in terms of mass, efficiency, power modularity and above all cost.

This study aims at gaining a good understanding of the likely evolution of satellite broadcasting during the period 2001-2007 in order to adequately plan the required developments for the future generation of broadcasting satellites.

The scope of this project was to perform a survey of the main companies in competing countries outside Europe carrying out Satellite Communications Systems (SATCOM) technological development.

The study aims at identifying opportunities for European Union satellite operators and service providers in all countries acceding to the European Union in 2004 (Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovak Republic and Slovenia). In addition, a Desk Research study of telecomms capabilities of neighbouring countries (Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, FR of Yugoslavia, Romania, Albania, Bulgaria and Turkey) will be carried out.

The survey moves from the identification of the Companies that are active in the Telecommunication Market and, through the characterisation of each Company profile, aims at defining the major areas for a possible co-operation between the Industry of Greece and the Agency.

The objective of this study is to improve the knowledge about propagation effects, climatological influence and propagation modelling for Satcom and Satnav systems providing services in tropical and sub-tropical regions.

The Mobile TV S-Band Repeater project aims to develop and qualify S-Band repeaters, ensuring Thales Alenia Space - España's leadership in future S-Band repeaters management opportunities.

The objective of this predevelopment activity for the new large European telecommunication platform is to develop, design, manufacture and test a new generation of deployable radiators with higher thermal performance and lower mass than existing aluminium/honeycomb panels.

SMM proposes the launch of one or more small-class geostationary satellites, featuring Ka-band spot beam payloads, in order to reduce satellite broadband service costs by an order of magnitude and bring them into line with terrestrial offerings.

The objective of this study is to assess the competitive situation between satellite and terrestrial communications networks in the Location Based Services market in the medium term (2005-2010).

The main objective of this study is to provide the European industry with pragmatic information and guidelines for the implementation of DVB-RCS services in two target regions, Latin America and Africa.

The objective of the activity is to develop an Active Pixel Sensor (APS) based star sensor compliant with the Alphabus/Large Platform Development. The pre-development activities are important to reduce the schedule and technical risk of the overall large platform development. The purpose of this activity is to analyse the economic interest, to develop and to test an elegant breadboard of an APS based star sensor.

The main objective of this study is to explore the grounds for the development and operation of a European stratospheric platform based on a sound analysis of possible service areas - mainly in the area of telecommunications, assessment of available and future technologies, to perform a conceptual design for the best suited platform concept answering the needs of future telecommunication markets.

The objective of this study is to assess the feasibility and commercial viability of a scalable approach using smaller satellites for providing satellite communication to new markets, services and applications.

The Project will demonstrate the concepts and schemes proposed for the end to end integrated communications scenarios, with focus on the provisioning of QoS aware communication services across heterogeneous domains.

The objective of this activity is to assess the feasibility of a high-resolution accelerometer in order to increase the station keeping autonomy in relation with the electric engine of the @BUS platform.

The Objective of the Project is the development of a Study on the current status and the expected evolution of High Definition Television deployments via Satellite in the world, with the aim of identifying which are going to be the potential business development of such new applications in Europe and Canada.

The safeguarding of high value assets always has been a topic in the space industry, but since hacktivism has become itself an industry and developing exploits can be done by script kiddies, the risk of being attacked is more eminent that ever. The cybersecure EGSE copes with these rising challenges by establishing a hardened EGSE platform based on the three Industry Standards ISO 27001, NIST 800-171 and IEC 62443-2-4;

The DAWN project investigates network control, management and orchestration algorithms to enable data-driven SatCom network and resources management and configuration in future integrated satellite-terrestrial networks. This includes data mining and analysis to optimize the performance of both the radio access and the network.