Research trends, challenges, future prospects of LEO satellite communications

The Staff Development Committee of the Engineering department, organized online program titled "Research trends, challenges, future prospects of LEO satellite communications” on Thursday, 7th, April 2022 at 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM. The program session addressed by Mr. Antony Judice.AV, Lecturer, (Electronics and communication Engineering).               

In his presentation, he explained about Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellites, Challenges of LEO Satellites and LEO Constellation with examples and explained about starlink, Starlink has a significant advantage over fiber in its widespread availability.  Starlink plans to be available worldwide by the end of 2022. Users can expect download speeds between 100 Mb/s and 200 Mb/s and latency as low as 20ms in most locations. Both 5G and Starlink are different but equally competitive and complementary technologies. He given some satellite phone company service provider details like Inmarsat, iridium, thuraya and globalstar etc,

He elaborated Inter-Satellite Links (ISL), OWC (Optical Wireless Communication) OWC Simulated Results; satellite Software’s and Upcoming Missions etc.

The session was very interactive; many faculties from different department were participated in the discussions. The staff members felt that the presentation was very much useful and effective. Totally 16 staffs were participated.