[Sis-csi] Noting Japanese Internet/ground station workshop

[Lloyd Wood]

The 1st International Workshop on Ground Station Network
<http://www.unisec.jp/gsn/symposium_e.html>http://www.unisec.jp/gsn/symposium_e.html
July 18-19, Hongo campus, Tokyo. Abstracts close 31 May (Tokyo time - 
30 May most other places...)

has a focus on getting universities to cooperate and interconnect 
ground stations across the Internet-- though having multiple 
independent satellites use multiple independent ground stations 
requires common wireless communications -- cubesats typically talk 
2400/9600bps in amateur bands, but there's not much commonality in 
link design/channel use otherwise. (If there was a common standard 
this would be a good thing, and you could build a business model just 
owning a ground station servicing multiple satellites and their 
passes and throwing packets across the Internet from your ground 
station. But the point of Cubesats is students designing things from 
scratch, not taking things off the shelf.)

This seems to be setting up a sort-of Japanese equivalent to the 
Space Internet Workshop series; same presentation focus. SIW-5 is 
still coming in September:
http://www.cshcn.umd.edu/Space_Internet_Workshop/

fyi

L.