A small European geostationary platform (SGEO) for communications applications is being developed under OHB's lead management. Initiated by OHB, it has been established as a separate component of the long-term ESA schedule under the ARTES-11 program. The technical specifications for SGEO are based on a proposal submitted by OHB-System AG. What sets the SGEO platform apart is its modular structure. As a result, the satellite can be fitted individually in accordance with the customer's specific requirements without any major modifications to the satellite bus. SGEO has been developed as an optimum platform for communications payloads. With its modular design, however, SGEO also provides a costefficient basis for other applications such as earth observation or meteorology. The first SGEO mission based on the new satellite platform will be launched with a payload for the Spanish satellite operator HISPASAT as "HISPASAT Advanced Generation 1". HISPASAT AG1 will be placed in a geostationary orbit, where it will supply Spain, Portugal, the Canary Islands and South America with multimedia services. The paper presents an overview of the satellite modular design and main features together with a brief description of the new payload technologies that will fly onboard the mission. The operational concept behind the mission is described by going through the details of the ground segment design together with the operability requirements and solutions that fulfill those requirements, also the highlights of the different mission phase operations including preparation, LEOP, payload and platform IOT, and on-station. Two scenarios are discussed regarding the transfer strategy: a geo-stationary transfer approach and a super-synchronous transfer approach. And finally an overview of mission timeline is presented.
This paper addresses the design of parallel architectures for computing the 8x8 Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT). It concentrates on direct methods, which avoid a row-column decomposition.Two novel multiplier-free parallel architectures for high-speed 8x8 DCT calculation are proposed. The first architecture, which uses polynomial transforms, is compared with a second architecture, which computes the DCT via the Walsh-Hadamard Transform (WHT). Both architectures achieve a high degree of parallelism and regularity. The proposed architectures are designed for HDTV sampling rates and can be emaently realized in CMOS technology.
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