Space information technologies: future agenda

Don M. Flournoy

doi:10.1117/12.655677

4 January 2006 Space information technologies: future agenda

Don M. Flournoy

Proceedings Volume 5985, International Conference on Space Information Technology; 59850C (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.655677
Event: International Conference on Space information Technology, 2005, Wuhan, China

Abstract

Satellites will operate more like wide area broadband computer networks in the 21^st Century. Space-based information and communication technologies will therefore be a lot more accessible and functional for the individual user. These developments are the result of earth-based telecommunication and computing innovations being extended to space. The author predicts that the broadband Internet will eventually be available on demand to users of terrestrial networks wherever they are. Earth and space communication assets will be managed as a single network. Space networks will assure that online access is ubiquitous. No matter whether users are located in cities or in remote locations, they will always be within reach of a node on the Internet. Even today, scalable bandwidth can be delivered to active users when moving around in vehicles on the ground, or aboard ships at sea or in the air. Discussion of the innovative technologies produced by NASA's Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (1993-2004) demonstrates future capabilities of satellites that make them uniquely suited to serve as nodes on the broadband Internet.

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Don M. Flournoy "Space information technologies: future agenda", Proc. SPIE 5985, International Conference on Space Information Technology, 59850C (4 January 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.655677

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