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  • NASA's alphasat propagation...
    Zemba, M.; Nessel, J.; Riva, C.; Luini, L.; Goussetis, G.

    International journal of satellite communications and networking, September/October 2019, 2019-09-00, 20190901, Volume: 37, Issue: 5
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    Summary Since May of 2014, NASA's Glenn Research Center has operated measurement campaigns for the Alphasat Aldo Paraboni Propagation Experiment alongside the European community of propagation experimenters. Presently, three NASA stations have been deployed to distinct climatological regions across Europe. NASA's participation in the campaign began in 2014 through a collaborative effort with the Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI) to jointly operate a 20/40 GHz ground terminal at the POLIMI campus in Milan, Italy. Subsequently, a single‐channel 40 GHz terminal was deployed to Edinburgh, Scotland in March 2016 in collaboration with Heriot‐Watt University (HWU). A third terminal was deployed to NASA's Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex (MDSCC) in March 2017 with NASA'S Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), also observing the 40 GHz beacon. In addition, a fourth station is planned for deployment to Andøya, Norway by early 2019 in collaboration with the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI). This paper will detail the design and results of the two most established terminals, Milan and Edinburgh, which together comprise 11 station years of propagation measurements. Since 2014, NASA's Glenn Research Center has operated measurement campaigns for the Alphasat propagation experiment. Presently, three NASA stations have been deployed to distinct climatological regions across Europe: at the Politecnico di Milano campus in Milan, Italy (May 2014), at Heriot‐Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland (March 2016), and at NASA's Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex (MDSCC) in Robledo de Chavela, Spain (March 2017).This paper details the two most established terminals, Milan and Edinburgh, together comprising 11 station years of measurements.