Michèle Le Saux

Head of Commercial Ground Segment Section, Technical

Directorate, European Space Agency

Alberto Ginesi

Head of Telecomm. And TT&C System Section, Technical

Directorate, European Space Agency

The European Market & Technology Roadmap for HTS

Agenda

1. ESA and Satcoms

2. Satcoms market view and trends

3. ARTES 1 activities

4. R&D Roadmaps related to HTS:

a. Efficiency

b. Flexibility

c. Throughput

d. Examples

5. Co-funded commercial development examples

ESA AND SATCOMS

Who is ESA? The European Space Agency

“To provide for and promote, for exclusively peaceful purposes, cooperation among European states in space research and technology and their space applications.”

20 Nations working in the areas of: • Space Science• Human Spaceflight• Exploration• Earth Observation• Launchers• Navigation• Telecommunications• Technology• Operations

ARTES: Advance Research in Telecommunication Systems

• Objectives of ARTES:

o Maintain and improve the capability and competitiveness of industry of participating countries in the world satellite satcom market

o Develop satellite-based solutions that meet the needs of the European Society and European Institutions.

See: www.telecom.esa.int

Telecommunications and Integrated ApplicationsARTES Programs

Generic Envelope Programme Elements

ARTES 1: Strategy (ESA initiative, fully funded)

ARTES 3-4: Products, Services and Commercial Applications

(Industry initiative, 50% funded)

ARTES 5.2: Technology (Industry initiative, 75% funded)

ARTES 5.1: Technology (ESA initiative, fully funded)

ARTES 20: Integrated Applications

Specific Mission/System orientated Programme Elements

ARTES 11: Small GEO platform/mission

ARTES 7: EDRS – European Data Relay Satellite

ARTES 10: Iris- Air Traffic Management System

ARTES 21: AIS – Automatic Identification System

ARTES 14: NeoSat: Next Generation Platform

ARTES 33: Industry Generated Public Private Partnerships

SATCOM MARKET

Satellite Communications Industry Context

• Telecoms industry:

• 4.9 Trillion US$

• Satellite Industry:

• 190 Billion US$

• Satcoms Industry:

• 50% -60%

• ~ 100 Billion US$Source: SIA June 2013 report

Satellite Industry by Sector

Source: SIA June 2013 report

• Satellite Manufacturing: 8%

• Ground Equipment: 29%

• Satellite Services: 60 %

Capacity vs. Revenue Growth

Satellite operators/service providers see ‘capacity crunch’ now similar to

mobile operators => revenue per bit is dropping

Source: Euroconsult

Market Trends: Satcoms and Terrestrial comms

• Integration between satellite and terrestrial

network is accelerating

• E.g O3B backhaul of cellular traffic

• Satcoms will succeed where it presents a

compelling value proposition

• E.g. broadcast of HDTV and live events

• Video dominates satcom and is the dominant

traffic on terrestrial networks

• Opportunity for satellite to off-load

terrestrial networks by pushing video

and other content to the edge of the

wired and wireless terrestrial networks

Mobile Services Market

Source: Euroconsult

ACTIVITIES IN ARTES 1

System and Market Studies in ARTES 1:Some examples

• Next Generation of consumer terminal architectures for

broadband and broadcast applications

• European roadmap for flexible payloads

• Applications, markets and requirements for next

generation MSS systems

• Next generation waveforms for improved spectral

efficiencies

• Service delivery over integrated satellite and terrestrial

networks

• Capacity Enhancement and Interference Management for

Interactive Satellite Networks

• Next generation of MEO satellite based networks

• Nanosatellites for commercial telecommunication services

ARTES 1 Final Reports and Final Presentations are available to organizations in ESA participating states: Jan 22-23, 2014, ESTEC

Example ARTES 1 activities

Emerging system concepts for UAS command and control (C2) via satellite: a pre-WRC-2012 system study

Satellite communication ground segment industry survey

Approaching the Terabit/s Satellite: A system study

Satellite Machine-to-Machine Services Market Survey

Satellite Communications for future Arctic Communications

European Data Relay Satellite (EDRS) early system studies

R&D ROADMAPS FOR HTS

R&D directions in ESA in the area of HTS

THROUGHPUTINCREASE

FLEXIBILITYOF RESOURCES

SYSTEM COSTOPTIMIZATION

DRIVER 1:Reduce

the cost of the

delivered b/s/Hz

DRIVER 2:Keep up with the

ever increasing user data

rate demands

DRIVER 3:Cope with demand

variability

Throughput increase (1)

Cap

acit

y (

Gig

ab

it/s)

Payload complexity (mass, accommodation) Platform power (kW)

Diminishing return capacity characteristic due to the Shannon curve log-like shape and the presence of intra-system interference

Impact to capacity and payload complexity of few key system parameters

Throughput increase (2)

1. Use more spectral efficient air interface

2. Reduction of the required number of

GWs

a. Moving to higher frequencies:

Q/V and W band and optical (?)

3. Increase capacity by moving to more

aggressive frequency re-use and

terminal/GW interference mitigation

techniques

4. Increase user peak data rates to follow

terrestrial trends - multi-Gbps user peak

data rate requires large transponder

bandwidth (500 MHz or more) with

narrow spot beam

PRECODINGTECHNIQUE

System cost reduction

1. For large broadband network the cost

of the ground segment approaches the

cost of the space segment. A large

number of gateways are required to

support the user capacity.

a. Smart gateway techniques

together with exploitation of

higher frequency bands

2. Cost reduce the user terminal

a. Low cost Ka-band wideband

MMIC chipset

b. All-ODU design concept

c. Cost reduce the antenna

(mobile users)

DVB-S2

Demodulators

bank with

iterative IC

OMT/

filters

Digital

tuners

Bank

of high

speed

ADC’s+ subsamp

Downconv

ANALOG

Linear

Pre-

Processing

LNA

LNA

LNA

FEEDS

FILTER SSPA

PL DROPLC/WIFI

transceiver

DVB-RCS NG

DIGITAL MODDIRECT RF

MODULATOR

INTEGRATED

ODU/IDU

Adaptive

Pre-distortion

feedback

Flexibility of resources (1)

1. Possibility of adapting the ever-longer

living satellites

to evolving business conditions (or to

crisis situations)

a. Customer demand variability

– Type of services and/or

users

– Geographical User

Distribution

– Temporary Events (Wars,

Natural Disasters, etc.)

b. Competition

– Unpredictable Satellite

Operator Competition

– Unpredictable

Terrestrial Network

Competition

2. Possibility to early entry into new

markets

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22%31% 9%

20%17% 3%

12% 54%121% 73%

50% 45%46%

22% 28%30%

6%

116% 98% 133%193% 228%

821%140% 86% 107%

74%

72% 168%163% 200%

83%243% 136% 23%

233%

163% 87% 70%134% 96%

151%465% 221%166%

140% 45%20%

49% 212% 157%83% 63%

174% 226%192%1% 49%

56% 48% 35%

10%

134% 50%

204%

26% 252%48% 158%114%

56%

111%19%

422%95% 95%

37% 30% 32%

95% 49%71% 100%

83% 93% 54%46%

13%

41%

17%38% 15%

57%72% 63%

181%

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400

800

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pacity [

Mbp

s]

Legend

DDSO 2010 Requirements

Conventional System

Flexibility of resources (2)

1. Reconfigurable bandwidth/power

allocation on the user-link

2. Support of flexible number of

gateways

3. Scalability to the traffic

requirements

4. Reconfigurable interconnectivity

between user beams / gateways

5. All at

a. affordable recurrent cost

b. competitive mass and power consumption

c. high reliability

(…)

W

NM

AX

Beam Hopping Window representation

TWTA Switched

Beam Hopping

2013 and 2014 ARTES 5.1 activities related to HTS (1)Improving the air interface efficiency/flexibility

1. Ultra High Throughput

Transmission through

wideband Ka transponder-

2013

2. System Demonstrator for

Advanced Interference

Mitigation Techniques in

Satellite Networks – 2013

3. Prototypes for Advanced

Access Schemes – 2013

4. Prototype Receiver for

Spectrally Efficient

Transmission Schemes –

2014

2013 and 2014 ARTES 5.1/TRP activities related to HTS (2)Improving the air interface efficiency/flexibility

5. Precoding demonstrator for

broadband systems forward

links – 2014

6. Beam Hopping System

Demonstrator – 2012

7. Optimized Transmission

Techniques for SATCOM

Unicast Interactive Traffic –

TRP 2015

2013 and 2014 ARTES 5.1/TRP activities related to HTS (3)Terminals

1. Low-cost MMIC Chipset for future

broadband VSAT- 2013

2. All-ODU Terminal Prototype- 2013

3. Cost-Effective Low-Profile User

Terminal Antenna Technology -

2014

4. Dual beam ground terminal antenna

for MEO constellation – 2014

5. Modem prototype for MEO

broadband access –2014

6. Propagation Channel Model

Simulator for MEO Telecom Services

at Ka band – 2014

7. Antennas and Signal Processing

Techniques for Interference

Mitigation in Next Generation Ka

band High Throughput Satellites –

TRP 2014

OMT

Multiple

LNB

TCXO

Reference

RF Power Module

Ka-MMICs

Power

Module

Synthesizer

Module

Direct

Quadrature

Modulator

(Multiple)

ADC

Digital

Modulator

Tx/Rx Interface

Module

(WiFi, PLC,PoE,…)

Tx Data

Terrestrial

Interface (Multiple)

Feed

Analog

Front

End

Digital

Front-

end

Demod

(ASIC)

Adaptive

Pre-

distortion

Baseband

Module

2013 and 2014 ARTES 5.1 activities related to HTS (4)Gateways

1. Q/V-band vacuum amplifiers

for future high-capacity telecom

Gateways – 2013

2. Network management and

control optimisation for future

HTS Multi-Gateway Systems –

2014

3. Experimental Characterisation

of Ka and Q band Site Diversity

using Alphasat TDP5 beacon –

2014 Beam 1

Beam 2

Beam 3

Beam 4

Beam 5

Beam 6

6

5

4

3

2

1

Time

Freq

1

1

1

Time

Freq

6

5

4

3

2

1

Time

Freq

6

5

4

3

2

1

Time

Freq

2

2

2

Time

Freq

3

3

3

Time

Freq

4

4

4

Time

Freq

5

5

5

Time

Freq

6

6

6

Time

Freq

GW #1

GW #2

GW #3

2013 and 2014 ARTES 5.1 activities related to HTS (5)Mobile terminals

1. Advanced mobility management

protocols for future high-

capacity multi-beam GEO

satellite networks – 2013

2. High Throughput Land Mobile

Satellite Terminals – 2013

3. Low Cost BFN/ RF front end

using multinode on chip for Ka

band user terminal phased

array antennas – 2013

4. Integrated Ka/Ku band

terminal – 2013

5. Electronically steerable low

drag aeronautical antenna -

2014

6. Mobile Ka-band Multimedia

Receiver for Vehicles - 2014

Example Commercial Developments:ARTES 5.2 and 3-4

SAT3PLAY (voice, data, TV)by NEWTEC

Global Navigation Satellite System Receiver – by Septentrio

Textile Antennasby Patria Oyj

Maritime Antennaby JOTRON

Media Fleet Managerby ND SatCom

Connecting Remote Communitiesby Altobridge lite-site™ solution

IP LNB:Global Invacom

More information?

www.telecom.esa.int