Frontier Technologies for

«Space 2.0» Communications

2nd edition – September 1-6, 2022

Welcome note
Claudio Sacchi(*), Roberto Battiston(**)
(*)University of Trento, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI), Trento
(Italy) – IEEE AESS “Glue Technologies for Space Systems” technical panel chair (claudio.sacchi@unitn.it)
(**)University of Trento, Department of Physics, Trento (Italy)

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Welcome!

Welcome to all the participants to the 2nd edition of the Summer

School: “Frontier Technologies for Space 2.0 Communications”:
ORGANIZERS

UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF:

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Howtitle
to attend:

The School lectures will be entirely managed ONLINE, by using

Zoom platform.

The Zoom room will be open 20 minutes before the lecture

starting. So, please, connect in advance to avoid delays.

You will be able to intervene during the lectures. In case, please

ask the permission raising the (virtual) hand of Zoom.

Recording will be available just after the lecture conclusion for

those students that will not be allowed to attend online (for
instance for time schedule reasons) and/or for recap. Please, try
to attend online as much as you can!
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Attendance and credits:

A signed certificate of attendance will be delivered to each students after the end of the School.

An exam is foreseen for those students that can obtain credits from the School attendance.

Please, inform us as soon as possible if you are eligible for obtaining credits by email. We shall create
a sub-mailing list labelled as “exam candidates”. For these students, the declaration of “exam pass”
will be enclosed in the certificate of attendance.

The exam will consist of a two-step online test (with multiple responses). We will send information
and instructions.

Exam dates:
First step: MONDAY SEPTEMBER 5 from 1.30 p.m. to 3.30 p.m. CEST
Second step: FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 9 from 2.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. CEST
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Lecture

FIRST DAY: Thursday September 1, 2022

“Space 2.0”: the new Space Revolution 77 years after A.C. Clarke, h. 9.30
a.m. – 12.30 p.m. CEST
Lecturers: Claudio Sacchi, University of Trento (Italy), Marina Ruggieri, University of
Rome “Tor Vergata” (Italy)

End-to-end engineering approach for Space Systems, h. 4.30-7.30 p.m.

CEST
Lecturer: Kar-Ming Cheung, Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) of NASA, Pasadena (CA)

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Lecture

SECOND DAY: Friday September 2, 2022

Space Quantum Communications, h. 9.00 a.m. – 12.00 p.m. CEST
Lecturers: Riccardo Bassoli, Technical University of Dresden (Germany), Janis Nötzel
and Roberto Ferrara, Technical University of Munich (Germany)

Space Softwarization: from Physical Layer to Services, h. 3.00-6.00 p.m.

CEST
Lecturers: Fabrizio Granelli, Claudio Sacchi, University of Trento (Italy)

STUDY BREAK (WEEKEND SEPT. 3-4)

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Lecture

EXAM: FIRST STEP, MON 5 SEPT. 1.30-3.30 p.m.

THIRD DAY: Monday September 5, 2022

Software Defined Radio for Satellite Communications: applications for
on-board and ground processing and Internet of Remote Things, h. 4.00-
7.00 p.m. CEST
Lecturers: Vlad Popescu, Universitatea Transilvania Brasov, Brasov (Romania),
Eugene Grayver, Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo (CA)

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Lecture
FOURTH DAY: Tuesday September 6, 2022
EHF for satellite communications: the latest developments, h. 9.30 a.m. – 12.30
p.m. CEST
Lecturers: Tommaso Rossi, University of Rome “Tor Vergata” (Italy), Giuseppe Codispoti, ASI
(Italy), Giorgia Parca, ASI (Italy)

Satellite networking in “5G and beyond 5G” scenarios, h. 3.00 – 6.00 p.m. CEST
Lecturers: Mario Marchese, University of Genoa (Italy), Mohammed Slim Alouini, King
Abdullah University of Science and Technology – KAUST, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Concluding remarks h. 6.00 – 6.30 p.m. (Claudio Sacchi)

EXAM: SECOND STEP, FRI 9 SEPT. 2.30-4.30 p.m.

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