Session 1.6b Conference Product Brief: Software-defined Multibeam Ground Station for Simultaneous Satellite Communications and Space Domain Awareness
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| Tuesday, November 14, 2023 |
| 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM |
| Bradman Theatre |
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Sponsored By:
Quasar Satellite Technologies
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Quasar with its partner CSIRO has developed the world's first scalable software-defined phased array ground station. Its all-sky real-time visibility combined with fully digital beam generation and data processing stack provides the ability to communicate with dozens of satellites simultaneously in multiple LEO, MEO and GEO orbits and run passive RF-based Space Domain Awareness on a single aperture. With today's legacy single-beam parabolic dish-based ground communications infrastructure, space-earth data bottlenecks when satellites are in close proximity will continue to put unsustainable pressure on ground station operators. A new generation of technology is needed.
Quasar's unique cryogenically cooled, high throughput, broad spectrum and sensitive antenna is derived from two decades of signals research in radio astronomy and phased array design. Its first S-band system deployed in Q4 2023 in Australia allows satellite mission managers to book communications links with the confidence that capacity will always be available. SDA operators will have a new view of the sky that allows for accurate location, spectral analysis, interference and anomaly detection, signals intelligence and more.
Speaker/s
Mr Phil Ridley
Ceo
Quasar Satellite Technologies
Phil is CEO of Quasar Satellite Technologies. He has over 30 years' experience in telecommunications, aerospace and defence engineering. Prior to Quasar Phil was cofounder or senior executive at Partners in Performance, Mojo Power, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Seven Network Limited, Unwired/Vividwireless, Ubowireless, and Telstra Bigpond. Phil is an ex-RAAF engineer and a Fellow of Engineers Australia, a Chartered Professional Engineer, a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the author of several international patents. He was listed in the CIO50 in 2019 and is a winner of multiple national Australian Engineering Excellence awards including the prestigious Bradfield Award for Engineering Excellence.
