ATI Professional Development Courses Catalog On Space, Satellite and Aerospace Engineering

1. APPLIED
TECHNOLOGY
INSTITUTE
Volume 99
Valid through
March 2010
ATI
COURSES
TECHNICAL TRAINING
TECHNICAL TRAINING
public & onsite
public & onsite SINCE 1984
SINCE 1984
• Space & Satellite Systems
• Radar, Missile, GPS & Defense
• Engineering & Data Analysis
• Systems Engineering & Project
Management

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3. Table of Contents
Space & Satellite Systems Courses Systems of Systems
Dec 15-17, 2009 • Huntsville, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Advanced Satellite Communications Systems
Apr 20-22, 2010 • San Diego, California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Jan 26-28, 2010 • Cocoa Beach, Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Test Design and Analysis
Communications Payload Design- Satellite Systems Architecture
Nov 10-12, 2009 • Beltsville, Maryland NEW! . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Nov 30-Dec 2, 2010 • Phoenix, Arizona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Design & Analysis of Bolted Joints NEW! Feb 8-10, 2010 • Columbia, Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Dec 7-9, 2009 • Littleton, Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Total Systems Engineering Development
Fundamentals of Orbital & Launch Mechanics Feb 1-4, 2010 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Oct 26-29, 2009 • Albuquerque, New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Mar 2-5, 2010 • Colorado Springs, Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Jan 18-21, 2010 • Dayton, Ohio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Defense, Missiles & Radar
Mar 22-25, 2010 • Cape Canaveral, Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
GPS Technology - Solutions for Earth & Space Advanced Developments in Radar Technology NEW!
Nov 2-5, 2009 • Albuquerque, New Mexico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Feb 23-25, 2010 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Jan 25-28, 2010 • Dayton, Ohio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Antenna & Array Fundamentals NEW!
Mar 29-Apr 1, 2010 • Cape Canaveral, Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Nov 17-19, 2009 • Chantilly, Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Hyperspectral & Multispectral Imaging Mar 2-4, 2010 • Beltsville, Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Mar 9-11, 2010 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Combat Systems Engineering NEW!
IP Networking Over Satellite Feb 23-24, 2010 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Nov 3-5, 2009 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Explosives Technology and Modeling NEW!
Remote Sensing Information Extraction Jan 25-28, 2010 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Mar 16-18, 2010 • Chantilly, Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Fundamentals of Link 16/ JTIDS/ MIDS
Satellite Communication Systems Engineering Nov 2-3, 2009 • Washington DC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Dec 8-10, 2009 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Jan 18-19, 2010 • Washington DC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Mar 16-18, 2010 • Boulder, Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Fundamentals of Radar Technology
Satellite Communication - An Essential Introduction Jan 12-14, 2010 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Oct 20-22, 2009 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Fundamentals of Rockets and Missiles
Dec 15-17, 2009 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Dec 8-10, 2009 • Colorado Springs, Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Jan 18-21, 2010 • Laurel, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Mar 8-10, 2010 • Laurel, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Mar 9-11, 2010 • Albuquerque, New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Missile Autopilots
Satellite Design & Technology Nov 16-19, 2009 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Nov 3-6, 2009 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Modern Infrared Sensor Technology
Apr 20-23, 2010 • Laurel, Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Nov 4-6, 2009 • Huntsville, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Satellite Laser Communications NEW! Feb 9-11, 2010 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Feb 9-11, 2010 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Modern Missile Analysis
Satellite RF Communications & Onboard Processing Feb 22-25, 2010 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Dec 1-3, 2009 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Multi-Target Tracking and Multi-Sensor Data Fusion
Solid Rocket Motor Design & Applications Feb 2-4, 2010 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Apr 20-22, 2010 • Cocoa Beach, Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 May 11-13, 2010 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Space-Based Laser Systems Radar Systems Design & Engineering
Mar 24-25, 2010 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Mar 2-5, 2010 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Space-Based Radar NEW! Rocket Propulsion 101
Mar 8-12, 2010 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Feb 15-17, 2010 • Laurel, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Space Enviroment Implications for Spacecraft Design Synthetic Aperture Radar - Advanced
Feb 2-3, 2010 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Nov 4-5, 2009 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Space Mission Analysis and Design NEW! May 5-6, 2010 • Chantilly, Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Nov 3-5, 2009 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Synthetic Aperture Radar - Fundamentals
Space Mission Structures Nov 2-3, 2009 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Nov 16-19, 2009 • Littleton, Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 May 3-4, 2010 • Chantilly, Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Feb 22-25, 2010 • Houston, Texas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Theory & Fundamentals of Cyber Warfare NEW!
Space Systems Intermediate Design Jan 19-20, 2010 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Feb 22-26, 2010 • Beltsville, Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Unmanned Aircraft Systems NEW!
Space Systems Subsystems Design
Nov 10, 2009 • Beltsville, Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Mar 1-5, 2010 • Beltsville, Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Feb 17, 2010 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Spacecraft Quality Assurance, Integration & Testing
Mar 24-25, 2010 • Beltsville, Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Engineering, Analysis & Signal Processing
Jun 9-10, 2010 • Los Angeles, California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Advanced Topics in Digital Signal Processing
Spacecraft Systems Integration & Test
Dec 7-10, 2009 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Mar 29 - Apr 1, 2010 • Laurel, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Apr 19-22, 2010 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Composite Materials for Aerospace NEW!
Understanding Space NEW! Jan 19-21, 2010 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Oct 22-23, 2009 • Albuquerque, New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Engineering Systems Modeling with Excel / VBA NEW!
Feb 18-19, 2010 • Colorado Springs, Colorado . . . . . . . . . . 27 Nov 18-19, 2009 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Fundamentals of Random Vibration & Shock Testing
Systems Engineering & Project Management Nov 4-6, 2009 • Frederick, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Architecting with DODAF NEW! Fundamentals of RF Technology NEW!
Nov 10-11, 2009 • Columbia, Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Jan 14-15, 2010 • Laurel, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
CSEP Exam Prep NEW! Grounding and Shielding for EMC
Oct 7-8, 2009 • Chantilly, Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Dec 1-3, 2009 • Beltsville, Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Oct 23-24, 2009 • Albuquerque, New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Feb 2-4, 2010 • Beltsville, Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Feb 26-27, 2010 • Orlando, Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Introduction to EMI/EMC
Fundamentals of Systems Enginering Feb 23-25, 2010 • Beltsville, Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Feb 16-17, 2010 • Albuquerque, New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Mar 1-3, 2010 • Laurel, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Mar 29-30, 2010 • Columbia, Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Introduction to Electronic Packaging NEW!
Principles of Test & Evaluation Feb 16-18, 2010 • Columbia, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Feb 18-19, 2010 • Albuquerque, New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Signal and Image Processing and Analysis NEW!
Mar 16-17, 2010 • Columbia, Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Nov 3-4, 2009 • Cleveland, Ohio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Risk and Opportunity Management NEW! Dec 16-17, 2009 • Beltsville, Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Mar 9-11, 2010 • Beltsville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Wavelets: A Conceptual, Practical Approach
Systems Engineering - Requirements NEW! Feb 23-25, 2010 • San Diego, California. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Jan 12-14, 2010 • Albuquerque, New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Topics for On-site Courses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Mar 23-25, 2010 • Columbia, Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Popular “On-site” Topics & Ways to Register . . . . . . . . . 64
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4. Advanced Satellite Communications Systems:
Survey of Current and Emerging Digital Systems
January 26-28, 2010
Cocoa Beach, Florida
$1490 (8:30am - 4:00pm)
"Register 3 or More & Receive $10000 each
Off The Course Tuition."
Summary Course Outline
This three-day course covers all the technology of
1. Introduction to SATCOM. History and
advanced satellite communications as well as the overview. Examples of current military and
principles behind current state-of-the-art satellite commercial systems.
communications equipment. New and promising
technologies will be covered to develop an 2. Satellite orbits and transponder
understanding of the major approaches. Network characteristics.
topologies, VSAT, and IP networking over satellite. 3. Traffic Connectivities: Mesh, Hub-Spoke,
Point-to-Point, Broadcast.
4. Multiple Access Techniques: FDMA, TDMA,
Instructor CDMA, Random Access. DAMA and Bandwidth-on-
Demand.
Dr. John Roach is a leading authority in satellite
communications with 35+ years in the SATCOM 5. Communications Link Calculations.
Definition of EIRP, G/T, Eb/No. Noise Temperature
industry. He has worked on many development
and Figure. Transponder gain and SFD. Link Budget
projects both as employee and consultant / Calculations.
contractor. His experience has focused on the
systems engineering of state-of-the-art system 6. Digital Modulation Techniques. BPSK,
developments, military and commercial, from the QPSK. Standard pulse formats and bandwidth.
Nyquist signal shaping. Ideal BER performance.
worldwide architectural level to detailed terminal
tradeoffs and designs. He has been an adjunct 7. PSK Receiver Design Techniques. Carrier
faculty member at Florida Institute of Technology recovery, phase slips, ambiguity resolution,
where he taught a range of graduate comm- differential coding. Optimum data detection, clock
unications courses. He has also taught SATCOM recovery, bit count integrity.
short courses all over the US and in London and 8. Overview of Error Correction Coding,
Toronto, both publicly and in-house for both Encryption, and Frame Synchronization.
government and commercial organizations. In Standard FEC types. Coding Gain.
addition, he has been an expert witness in patent, 9. RF Components. HPA, SSPA, LNA, Up/down
trade secret, and government contracting cases. Dr. converters. Intermodulation, band limiting, oscillator
Roach has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from phase noise. Examples of BER Degradation.
Georgia Tech. Advanced Satellite Communications 10. TDMA Networks. Time Slots. Preambles.
Systems: Survey of Current and Emerging Digital Suitability for DAMA and BoD.
Systems. 11. Characteristics of IP and TCP/UDP over
satellite. Unicast and Multicast. Need for
Performance Enhancing Proxy (PEP) techniques.
What You Will Learn 12. VSAT Networks and their system
• Major Characteristics of satellites. characteristics; DVB standards and MF-TDMA.
• Characteristics of satellite networks. 13. Earth Station Antenna types. Pointing /
• The tradeoffs between major alternatives in Tracking. Small antennas at Ku band. FCC - Intelsat
SATCOM system design. - ITU antenna requirements and EIRP density
limitations.
• SATCOM system tradeoffs and link budget
analysis. 14. Spread Spectrum Techniques. Military use
and commercial PSD spreading with DS PN
• DAMA/BoD for FDMA, TDMA, and CDMA systems. Acquisition and tracking. Frequency Hop
systems. systems.
• Critical RF parameters in terminal equipment and 15. Overview of Bandwidth Efficient
their effects on performance. Modulation (BEM) Techniques. M-ary PSK, Trellis
• Technical details of digital receivers. Coded 8PSK, QAM.
• Tradeoffs among different FEC coding choices. 16. Convolutional coding and Viterbi
• Use of spread spectrum for Comm-on-the-Move. decoding. Concatenated coding. Turbo coding.
• Characteristics of IP traffic over satellite. 17. Emerging Technology Developments and
• Overview of bandwidth efficient modulation types. Future Trends.
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5. Communications Payload Design and Satellite System Architecture
November 10-12, 2009
Beltsville, Maryland
$1590 (8:30am - 4:00pm) Course Outline
1. Communications Payloads and Service
"Register 3 or More & Receive $10000 each Requirements. Bandwidth, coverage, services and
Off The Course Tuition." applications; RF link characteristics and appropriate use of link
budgets; bent pipe payloads using passive and active
components; specific demands for broadband data, IP over
NEW! satellite, mobile communications and service availability;
principles for using digital processing in system architecture,
and on-board processor examples at L band (non-GEO and
GEO) and Ka band.
2. Systems Engineering to Meet Service
Requirements. Transmission engineering of the satellite link
Summary and payload (modulation and FEC, standards such as DVB-
This three-day course provides communications and S2 and Adaptive Coding and Modulation, ATM and IP routing
in space); optimizing link and payload design through
satellite systems engineers and system architects with consideration of traffic distribution and dynamics, link margin,
a comprehensive and accurate approach for the RF interference and frequency coordination requirements.
specification and detailed design of the 3. Bent-pipe Repeater Design. Example of a detailed
communications payload and its integration into a block and level diagram, design for low noise amplification,
satellite system. Both standard bent pipe repeaters and down-conversion design, IMUX and band-pass filtering, group
delay and gain slope, AGC and linearizaton, power
digital processors (on board and ground-based) are amplification (SSPA and TWTA, linearization and parallel
studied in depth, and optimized from the standpoint of combining), OMUX and design for high power/multipactor,
maximizing throughput and coverage (single footprint redundancy switching and reliability assessment.
and multi-beam). Applications in Fixed Satellite Service 4. Spacecraft Antenna Design and Performance. Fixed
(C, X, Ku and Ka bands) and Mobile Satellite Service (L reflector systems (offset parabola, Gregorian, Cassegrain)
and S bands) are addressed as are the requirements of feeds and feed systems, movable and reconfigurable
antennas; shaped reflectors; linear and circular polarization.
the associated ground segment for satellite control and
5. Communications Payload Performance Budgeting.
the provision of services to end users. Gain to Noise Temperature Ratio (G/T), Saturation Flux
Density (SFD), and Effective Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP);
Instructor repeater gain/loss budgeting; frequency stability and phase
noise; third-order intercept (3ICP), gain flatness, group delay;
Bruce R. Elbert (MSEE, MBA) is president of non-linear phase shift (AM/PM); out of band rejection and
Application Technology Strategy, Inc., Thousand Oaks, amplitude non-linearity (C3IM and NPR).
California; and Adjunct Prof of Engineering, Univ of Wisc, 6. On-board Digital Processor Technology. A/D and D/A
Madison. conversion, digital signal processing for typical channels and
formats (FDMA, TDMA, CDMA); demodulation and
He is a recognized satellite communications expert with remodulation, multiplexing and packet switching; static and
40 years of experience in satellite communications dynamic beam forming; design requirements and service
payload and systems design engineering beginning at impacts.
COMSAT Laboratories and including 25 years with 7. Multi-beam Antennas. Fixed multi-beam antennas
Hughes Electronics. He has contributed to the design and using multiple feeds, feed layout and isloation; phased array
construction of major communications, including Intelsat, approaches using reflectors and direct radiating arrays; on-
board versus ground-based beamforming.
Inmarsat, Galaxy, Thuraya, DIRECTV and Palapa A.
8. RF Interference and Spectrum Management
He has written eight books, including: The Satellite Considerations. Unraveling the FCC and ITU international
Communication Applications Handbook, Second Edition, regulatory and coordination process; choosing frequency
The Satellite Communication Ground Segment and Earth bands that address service needs; development of regulatory
Station Handbook, and Introduction to Satellite and frequency coordination strategy based on successful case
Communication, Third Edition. studies.
9. Ground Segment Selection and Optimization.
Overall architecture of the ground segment: satellite TT&C and
What You Will Learn communications services; earth station and user terminal
capabilities and specifications (fixed and mobile); modems
• How to transform system and service requirements into and baseband systems; selection of appropriate antenna
payload specifications and design elements. based on link requirements and end-user/platform
• What are the specific characteristics of payload considerations.
components, such as antennas, LNAs, microwave filters, 10. Earth station and User Terminal Tradeoffs: RF
channel and power amplifiers, and power combiners. tradeoffs (RF power, EIRP, G/T); network design for provision
• What space and ground architecture to employ when of service (star, mesh and hybrid networks); portability and
evaluating on-board processing and multiple beam mobility.
antennas, and how these may be configured for optimum 11. Performance and Capacity Assessment.
end-to-end performance. Determining capacity requirements in terms of bandwidth,
• How to understand the overall system architecture and the power and network operation; selection of the air interface
capabilities of ground segment elements - hubs and remote (multiple access, modulation and coding); interfaces with
terminals - to integrate with the payload, constellation and satellite and ground segment; relationship to available
standards in current use and under development.
end-to-end system.
12. Satellite System Verification Methodology.
• From this course you will obtain the knowledge, skill and Verification engineering for the payload and ground segment;
ability to configure a communications payload based on its where and how to review sources of available technology and
service requirements and technical features. You will software to evaluate subsystem and system performance;
understand the engineering processes and device guidelines for overseeing development and evaluating
characteristics that determine how the payload is put alternate technologies and their sources; example of a
together and operates in a state - of - the - art complete design of a communications payload and system
telecommunications system to meet user needs. architecture.
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6. Design and Analysis of Bolted Joints
For Aerospace Engineers
NEW! December 7-9, 2009
Littleton, Colorado
$1490 (8:30am - 5:00pm)
Recent attendee comments ... "Register 3 or More & Receive $10000 each
Off The Course Tuition."
“It was a fantastic course—one of the
most useful short courses I have ever
taken.”
“A must course for structural/mechanical
engineers and anyone who has ever
questioned the assumptions in bolt analysis”
(What I found most useful:) “strong
emphasis on understanding physical
principles vs. blindly applying textbook
formulas.”
Course Outline
1. Overview of Designing Fastened Joints.
“Excellent instructor. Great lessons Common problems with structural joints, a design
learned on failure modes shown from process, selecting the method of attachment, strength
testing.” analysis for sizing and assessment, establishing design
standards and criteria.
2. Introduction to Threaded Fasteners. Brief
Summary history of screw threads, terminology and specification,
Just about everyone involved in developing tensile-stress area, fine threads vs. coarse threads.
hardware for space missions (or any other purpose, 3. Developing a Concept for the Joint. Selecting
for that matter) has been affected by problems with the type of fastener, configuring the joint, designing a
mechanical joints. Common problems include stiff joint, shear clips and tension clips, guidelines for
structural failure, fatigue, unwanted and unpredicted using tapped holes and inserts.
loss of stiffness, joint shifting or loss of alignment, 4. Calculating Fastener Loads. How a preloaded
fastener loosening, material mismatch, incom- joint carries load, temporarily ignoring preload, other
patibility with the space environment, mis-drilled common assumptions and their limitations, calculating
holes, time-consuming and costly assembly, and bolt loads in a compact joint, examples, calculating
inability to disassemble when needed. fastener loads for skins and panels.
• Build an understanding of how bolted joints 5. Failure Modes, Assessment Methods, and
behave and how they fail. Design Guidelines. Typical strength criteria for
• Impart effective processes, methods, and aerospace structures; an effective process for strength
standards for design and analysis, drawing on a mix analysis; bolt tension, shear, and interaction; tension
of theory, empirical data, and practical experience. joints, shear joints, identifying potential failure modes,
riveted joints, fastening composite materials.
• Share guidelines, rules of thumb, and valuable
references. 6. Thread Shear and Pull-out Strength. How
threads fail, computing theoretical shear engagement
The course includes many examples and class areas, including a knock-down factor, selected test
problems; calculators are required. Each participant results.
will receive a comprehensive set of course notes.
7. Selecting Hardware and Detailing the Design.
subject to strict application of modern science.
Selecting hardware and materials, guidelines for
simplifying assembly, establishing bolt preload, locking
features, recommendations for controlling preload.
Instructor 8. Detailed Analysis: Accounting for Bolt Preload.
Tom Sarafin has worked full time in the space Mechanics of a preloaded joint, estimating the load
industry since 1979, at Martin Marietta and Instar carried by the bolt and designing to reduce it, effects of
Engineering. Since founding Instar in 1993, he has ductility, calculating maximum and minimum preload,
consulted for DigitalGlobe, AeroAstro, AFRL, and thermal effects on preload, fatigue analysis.
Design_Net Engineering. He has helped the U. S. Air 9. Recommended Design Practice for Ductile
Force Academy design, develop, and test a series of Bolts Not Subject to NASA Standards. Applicability,
small satellites and has been an advisor to DARPA. He general recommendations, torque coefficients for steel
is the editor and principal author of Spacecraft fasteners, establishing allowable limit bolt loads for
Structures and Mechanisms: From Concept to Launch design, example.
and is a contributing author to all three editions of 10. Complying with NASA Standards. Factors of
Space Mission Analysis and Design. Since 1995, he safety, fracture control for fastened joints, satisfying the
has taught over 150 short courses to more than 3000 intent of NSTS 08307A, simplifying: deriving reduced
engineers and managers in the space industry. allowable bolts loads, example.
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7. Fundamentals of Orbital & Launch Mechanics
Military, Civilian and Deep-Space Applications
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Summary Navigato ee GPS
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Award-winning rocket scientist Thomas S. Logsdon
has carefully tailored this comprehensive 4-day short
course to serve the needs of those military, aerospace, October 26-29, 2009
and defense-industry professionals who must
understand, design, and manage today’s Albuquerque, New Mexico
increasingly complicated and demanding
aerospace missions.
January 18-21, 2010
Each topic is illustrated with one-page Dayton, Ohio
mathematical derivations and numerical
examples that use actual published March 22-25, 2010
inputs from real-world rockets, Cape Canaveral, Florida
satellites, and spacecraft missions.
The lessons help you lay out $1795 (8:30am - 4:00pm)
performance-optimal missions in concert "Register 3 or More & Receive $10000 each
with your professional colleagues. Off The Course Tuition."
Instructor Course Outline
For more than 30 years, Thomas S. Logsdon, M. S., 1. Concepts from Astrodynamics. Kepler’s Laws.
has worked on the Navstar GPS and other related Newton’s clever generalizations. Evaluating the earth’s
technologies at the Naval Ordinance Laboratory, gravitational parameter. Launch azimuths and ground-
McDonnell Douglas, Lockheed Martin, Boeing trace geometry. Orbital perturbations.
Aerospace, and Rockwell International. His research 2. Satellite Orbits. Isaac Newton’s vis viva
projects and consulting assignments have included the equation. Orbital energy and angular momentum.
Transit Navigation Satellites, The Tartar and Talos Gravity wells. The six classical Keplerian orbital
shipboard missiles, and the Navstar elements. Station-keeping maneuvers.
GPS. In addition, he has helped put 3. Rocket Propulsion Fundamentals. Momentum
astronauts on the moon and guide their calculations. Specific impulse. The rocket equation.
colleagues on rendezvous missions Building efficient liquid and solid rockets. Performance
headed toward the Skylab capsule, and calculations. Multi-stage rocket design.
helped fly capsules to the nearby 4. Enhancing a Rocket’s Performance. Optimal
planets. fuel biasing techniques. The programmed mixture ratio
Some of his more challenging assignments have scheme. Optimal trajectory shaping. Iterative least
included trajectory optimization, constellation design, squares hunting procedures. Trajectory reconstruction.
booster rocket performance enhancement, spacecraft Determining the best estimate of propellant mass.
survivability, differential navigation and booster rocket 5. Expendable Rockets and Reusable Space
guidance using the GPS signals. Shuttles. Operational characteristics, performance
Tom Logsdon has taught short courses and lectured in curves. Single-stage-to-orbit vehicles. Reusable space
31 different countries. He has written and published 40 shuttles: The SST, Russia’s Space Shuttle.
technical papers and journal articles, a dozen of which 6. Powered Flight Maneuvers. The classical
have dealt with military and civilian radionavigation Hohmann transfer maneuver. Multi-impulse and low-
techniques. He is also the author of 29 technical books thrust maneuvers. Plane-change maneuvers. The bi-
on a variety of mathematical, engineering and scientific elliptic transfer. Relative motion plots. Military evasive
subjects. These include Understanding the Navstar, maneuvers. Deorbit techniques. Planetary swingbys
Orbital Mechanics: Theory and Applications, Mobile and ballistic capture maneuvers.
Communication Satellites, and The Navstar Global 7. Optimal Orbit Selection. Polar and sun-
Positioning System. synchronous orbits. Geostationary orbits and their major
perturbations. ACE-orbit constellations. Lagrangian
libration point orbits. Halo orbits. Interplanetary
What You Will Learn trajectories. Mars-mission opportunities and deep-
• How do we launch a satellite into orbit and maneuver it to a space trajectories.
new location?
8. Constellation Selection Trades. Existing civilian
• How do we design a performance-optimal constellation of
satellites?
and military constellations. Constellation design
techniques. John Walker’s rosette configurations.
• Why do planetary swingby maneuvers provide such Captain Draim’s constellations. Repeating ground-trace
profound gains in performance, and what do we pay for
orbits. Earth coverage simulation routines.
these important performance gains?
• How can we design the best multistage rocket for a 9. Cruising along JPL’s Invisible Rivers of
particular mission? Gravity in Space. Equipotential surfaces. 3-
dimensional manifolds. Developing NASA’s clever
• What are Lagrangian libration-point orbits? Which ones are
dynamically stable? How can we place satellites into halo
Genesis mission. Capturing stardust in space.
orbits circling around these moving points in space? Simulating thick bundles of chaotic trajectories.
Experiencing tomorrow’s unpaved freeways in the sky.
• What are JPL’s gravity tubes? How were they discovered?
How are they revolutionizing the exploration of space?
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8. GPS Technology
GPS Solutions for Military, Civilian & Aerospace Applications
Eac
will rece h student
November 2-5, 2009
ive a fr Albuquerque, New Mexico
Navigato ee GPS
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January 25-28, 2010
Dayton, Ohio
March 29 - April 1, 2010
Summary Cape Canaveral, Florida
In this popular 4-day short course,
GPS expert Tom Logsdon will describe
$1795 (8:30am - 4:00pm)
in detail how precise radionavigation "Register 3 or More & Receive $10000 each
systems work and review the many Off The Course Tuition."
practical benefits they provide to military
and civilian users in space and around the globe.
Through practical demonstration you will learn how a
GPS receiver works, how to operate it in various Course Outline
situations, and how to interpret the positioning solutions 1. Radionavigation Principles. Active and passive
it provides. radionavigation systems. Spherical and hyperbolic
Each topic includes practical derivations and real- lines of position. Position and velocity solutions.
world examples using published inputs from the Spaceborne atomic clocks. Websites and other
literature and from the instructors personal and sources of information. Building a $143 billion business
professional experiences. in space.
2. The Three Major Segments of the GPS. Signal
structure and pseudorandom codes. Modulation
"The presenter was very energetic and techniques. Military performance enhancements.
truly passionate about the material" Relativistic time dilations. Inverted navigation solutions.
3. Navigation Solutions and Kalman Filtering
" Tom Logsdon is the best teacher I have Techniques. Taylor series expansions. Numerical
ever had. His knowledge is excellent. He iteration. Doppler shift solutions. Satellite selection
algorithms. Kalman filtering algorithms.
is a 10!" 4. Designing an Effective GPS Receiver.
Annotated block diagrams. Antenna design. Code
"The instructor displayed awesome tracking and carrier tracking loops. Software modules.
knowledge of the GPS and space technol- Commercial chipsets. Military receivers. Shuttle and
ogy…very knowledgeable instructor. space station receivers.
Spoke clearly…Good teaching style. 5. Military Applications. The worldwide common
grid. Military test-range applications.Tactical and
Encouraged questions and discussion." strategic applications. Autonomy and survivability
enhancements. Precision guided munitions. Smart
"Mr. Logsdon did a bang-up job bombs and artillery projectiles.
explaining and deriving the theories of 6. Integrated Navigation Systems. Mechanical
special/general relativity–and how they and Strapdown implementations. Ring lasers and fiber-
optic gyros. Integrated navigation. Military applications.
are associated with the GPS navigation Key features of the C-MIGITS integrated nav system.
solutions." 7. Differential Navigation and Pseudosatellites.
Special committee 104’s data exchange protocols.
"I loved his one-page mathematical der- Global data distribution. Wide-area differential
ivations and the important points they navigation. Pseudosatellite concepts and test results.
illustrate." 8. Carrier-Aided Solutions. The interferometry
concept. Double differencing techniques. Attitude
determination receivers. Navigation of the Topex and
"Instructor was very knowledgeable and NASA’s twin Grace satellites. Dynamic and Kinematic
related to his students very well–and orbit determination. Motorola’s Spaceborne Monarch
with sparkling good humor!" receiver. Relativistic time dilation derivations.
9. The Navstar Satellites. Subsystem descriptions.
On-orbit test results. The Block I, II, IIR, and IIF
"The lecture was truly an expert in his satellites, Block III concepts. Orbital Perturbations and
field and delivered an entertaining and modeling techniques. Stationkeeping maneuvers. Earth
technically well-balanced presentation." shadowing characteristic. Repeating ground-trace
geometry.
"Excellent instructor! Wonderful teach- 10. Russia’s Glonass Constellation. Performance
comparisons between the GPS and Glonass. Orbital
ing skills! This was honestly, the best mechanics considerations. Military survivability.
class I have had since leaving the univer- Spacecraft subsystems. Russia’s SL-12 Proton
sity." booster. Building dual-capability GPS/Glonass
receivers.
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9. Hyperspectral & Multispectral Imaging
March 9-11, 2010
Beltsville. Maryland
$1590 (8:30am - 4:00pm)
"Register 3 or More & Receive $10000 each
Off The Course Tuition."
Taught by an internationally recognized leader & expert
in spectral remote sensing!
Course Outline
Summary
1. Introduction to multispectral and
This three-day class is designed for engineers, hyperspectral remote sensing.
scientists and other remote sensing professionals
who wish to become familiar with multispectral 2. Sensor types and characterization.
and hyperspectral remote sensing technology. Design tradeoffs. Data formats and systems.
Students in this course will learn the basic physics 3. Optical properties for remote sensing.
of spectroscopy, the types of spectral sensors Solar radiation. Atmospheric transmittance,
currently used by government and industry, and absorption and scattering.
the types of data processing used for various 4. Sensor modeling and evaluation.
applications. Lectures will be enhanced by Spatial, spectral, and radiometric resolution.
computer demonstrations. After taking this 5. Statistics for multivariate data analysis.
course, students should be able to communicate Scatterplots. Impact of sensor performance on
and work productively with other professionals in data characteristics.
this field. Each student will receive a complete set
of notes and the textbook, Remote Sensing: The 6. Spectral data processing. Data
Image Chain Approach. visualization and interpretation.
7. Radiometric calibration. Partial calibration.
Relative normalization.
Instructor 8. Image registration. Resampling and its
Dr. Richard Gomez is a Research Professor at effect on spectral analysis.
George Mason University (GMU) and Principal 9. Data and sensor fusion. Spatial versus
Research Scientist at the Center for Earth spectral algorithms.
Observing and Space Research (CEOSR). At
10. Classification of remote sensing data.
GMU he teaches and is actively involved in the
Supervised and unsupervised classification.
scientific and technology fields of hyperspectral
Parametric and nonparametric classifiers.
imaging and high resolution remote sensing. He
Application examples.
has also served in industry and government
(Texas Instruments and USACE). Dr. Gomez is 11. Hyperspectral data analysis.
internationally recognized as a leader and expert
in the field of spectral remote sensing
(multispectral, hyperspectral and ultraspectral) What You Will Learn
and has published extensively in scientific • The limitations on passive optical remote
journals. He has organized and chaired national sensing.
and international conferences, symposia and • The properties of current sensors.
workshops. He earned his doctoral degree in
• Component modeling for sensor performance.
physics from New Mexico State University. He
also holds an M.S. and a B.S. in physics. Dr. • How to calibrate remote sensors.
Gomez has served as Director for the ASPRS for • The types of data processing used for
Potomac Region and currently serves as Defense applications such as spectral angle mapping,
Aerospace Chair for the IEEE-USA Committee multisensor fusion, and pixel mixture analysis.
on Transportation and Aerospace Technology • How to evaluate the performance of different
Policy. hyperspectral systems.
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10. IP Networking Over Satellite
For Government, Military & Commercial Enterprises
Summary November 3-5, 2009
This three-day course is designed for satellite Beltsville, Maryland
engineers and managers in government and industry
who need to increase their understanding of the $1590 (8:30am - 5:00pm)
Internet and how Internet Protocols (IP) can be used to
transmit data and voice over satellites. IP has become "Register 3 or More & Receive $10000 each
Off The Course Tuition."
the worldwide standard for data communications.
Satellites extend the reach of the Internet and Intranets.
Satellites deliver multicast content efficiently anywhere
in the world. With these benefits come challenges.
Satellite delay and bit errors can impact performance. Course Outline
Satellite links must be integrated with terrestrial 1. Introduction.
networks. Space segment is expensive; there are
routing and security issues. This course explains the 2. Fundamentals of Data Networking. Packet
switching, circuit switching, Seven Layer Model (ISO).
techniques and architectures used to mitigate these
Wide Area Networks including, Frame Relay, ATM,
challenges. Quantitative techniques for understanding Aloha, DVB. Local Area Networks, Ethernet. Physical
throughput and response time are presented. System communications layer.
diagrams describe the satellite/terrestrial interface. The
course notes provide an up-to-date reference. An 3. The Internet and its Protocols. The Internet
Protocol (IP). Addressing, Routing, Multicasting.
extensive bibliography is supplied.
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). Impact of bit
errors and propagation delay on TCP-based
Instructor applications. User Datagram Protocol (UDP).
Burt H. Liebowitz is Principal Network Engineer at the Introduction to higher level services. NAT and
tunneling. Impact of IP Version 6.
MITRE Corporation, McLean, Virginia, specializing in
the analysis of wireless services. He has more than 30 4. Quality of Service Issues in the Internet. QoS
years experience in computer networking, the last six of factors for streams and files. Performance of voice and
which have focused on Internet-over-satellite services. video over IP. Response time for web object retrievals
He was President of NetSat Express using HTTP. Methods for improving QoS: ATM, MPLS,
Differentiated services, RSVP. Priority processing and
Inc., a leading provider of such services.
packet discard in routers. Caching and performance
Before that he was Chief Technical enhancement. Network Management and Security
Officer for Loral Orion (now Cyberstar), issues including the impact of encryption in a satellite
responsible for Internet-over-satellite network.
access products. Mr. Liebowitz has
5. Satellite Data Networking Architectures.
authored two books on distributed
Geosynchronous satellites. The link budget, modulation
processing and numerous articles on computing and and coding techniques, bandwidth efficiency. Ground
communications systems. He has lectured extensively station architectures for data networking: Point to Point,
on computer networking. He holds three patents for a Point to Multipoint. Shared outbound carriers
satellite-based data networking system. Mr. Liebowitz incorporating Frame Relay, DVB. Return channels for
has B.E.E. and M.S. in Mathematics degrees from shared outbound systems: TDMA, CDMA, Aloha,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and an M.S.E.E. from DVB/RCS. Meshed networks for Intranets. Suppliers of
Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. DAMA systems.
After taking this course you will understand how 6. System Design and Economic Issues. Cost
the Internet works and how to implement satellite- factors for Backbone Internet and Direct to the home
based networks that provide Internet access, Internet services. Mission critical Intranet issues
multicast content delivery services, and mission- including asymmetric routing, reliable multicast, impact
critical Intranet services to users around the world. of user mobility. A content delivery case history.
7. A TDMA/DAMA Design Example. Integrating
What You Will Learn voice and data requirements in a mission-critical
• How packet switching works and how it enables voice and Intranet. Cost and bandwidth efficiency comparison of
data networking. SCPC, standards-based TDMA/DAMA and proprietary
• The rules and protocols for packet switching in the Internet. TDMA/DAMA approaches. Tradeoffs associated with
VOIP approach and use of encryption.
• How to use satellites as essential elements in mission
critical data networks. 8. Predicting Performance in Mission Critical
• How to understand and overcome the impact of propagation Networks. Queuing theory helps predict response
delay and bit errors on throughput and response time in time. Single server and priority queues. A design case
satellite-based IP networks. history, using queuing theory to determine how much
• How to link satellite and terrestrial circuits to create hybrid
bandwidth is needed to meet response time goals in a
IP networks. voice and data network. Use of simulation to predict
performance.
• How to select the appropriate system architectures for
Internet access, enterprise and content delivery networks. 9. A View of the Future. Impact of Ka-band and
• How to design satellite-based networks to meet user spot beam satellites. Benefits and issues associated
throughput and response time requirements. with Onboard Processing. LEO, MEO, GEOs.
Descriptions of current and proposed commercial and
• The impact on cost and performance of new technology,
such as LEOs, Ka band, on-board processing, inter-satellite
military satellite systems. Low-cost ground station
links. technology.
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11. Remote Sensing Information Extraction
March 16-18, 2010
Chantilly, Virginia
$1490 (8:30am - 4:00pm)
"Register 3 or More & Receive $10000 each Course Outline
Off The Course Tuition."
1. Remote Sensing Introduction. Definitions,
resolutions, active-passive.
2. Platforms. Airborne, spaceborne, advantages
and limitations.
3. Energy Flow Profile. Energy sources,
atmospheric interactions, reflectance curves,
emittance.
4. Aerial Photography. Photogrammetric
fundamentals of photo acquisition.
5. Film Types. Panchormatic, normal color, color
Summary infrared, panchromatic infrared.
This 3-day workshop will review remote sensing 6. Scale Determination. Point versus average
concepts and vocabulary including resolution, sensing scale. Methods of determination of scale.
platforms, electromagnetic spectrum and energy flow
profile. The workshop will provide an overview of the 7. Area and Height Measurements. Tools and
current and near-term status of operational platforms procedures including relative accuracies.
and sensor systems. The focus will be on methods to 8. Feature Extraction. Tone, texture, shadow,
extract information from these data sources. The size, shape, association.
spaceborne systems include the following; 1) high 9. Land Use and Land Cover. Examples,
spatial resolution (< 5m) systems, 2) medium spatial classification systems definitions, minimum
resolution (5-100m) multispectral, 3) low spatial mapping units, cartographic generalization.
resolution (>100m) multispectral, 4) radar, and 5)
hyperspectral. 10. Source materials. Image processing
The two directional relationships between remote software, organizations, literature, reference
sensing and GIS will be examined. Procedures for materials.
geometric registration and issues of cartographic 11. Spaceborne Remote Sensing. Basic
generalization for creating GIS layers from remote terminology and orbit characteristics. Distinction
sensing information will also be discussed. between research/experimental, national technical
assets, and operational systems.
Instructor 12. Multispectral Systems. Cameras, scanners
Dr. Barry Haack is a Professor of Geographic and
linear arrays, spectral matching.
Cartographic Sciences at George Mason University. 13. Moderate Resolution MSS. Landsat, SPOT,
He was a Research Engineer at ERIM and has held IRS, JERS.
fellowships with NASA Goddard, the US Air Force and 14. Coarse Resolution MSS. Meteorological
the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His primary professional Systems, AVHRR, Vegetation Mapper.
interest is basic and applied science using remote
sensing and he has over 100 professional publications 15. High Spatial Resolution. IKONOS,
and has been a recipient of a Leica-ERDAS award for EarthView, Orbview.
a research manuscript in Photogrammetric Engineering 16. Radar. Basic concepts, RADARSAT, ALMAZ,
and Remote Sensing. He has served as a consultant to SIR.
the UN, FAO, World Bank, and various governmental 17. Hyperspectral. AVIRIS, MODIS, Hyperion.
agencies in Africa, Asia and South America. He has
provided workshops to USDA, US intelligence 18. GIS-Remote Sensing Integration. Two
agencies, US Census, and ASPRS. Recently he was a directional relationships between remote sensing
Visiting Fulbright Professor at the University of Dar es and GIS. Data structures.
Salaam in Tanzania and has current projects in Nepal 19. Geometric Rectification. Procedures to
with support from the National Geographic Society. rectify remote sensing imagery.
20. Digital Image Processing. Preprocessing,
image enhancements, automated digital
What You Will Learn classification.
• Operational parameters of current sensors. 21. Accuracy Assessments. Contingency
• Visual and digital information extraction procedures. matrix, Kappa coefficient, sample size and
• Photogrammetric rectification procedures. selection.
• Integration of GIS and remote sensing. 22. Multiscale techniques. Ratio estimators,
• Accuracy assessments. double and nested sampling, area frame
• Availability and costs of remote sensing data. procedures.
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12. Satellite Communication Systems Engineering
A comprehensive, quantitative tutorial designed for satellite professionals
Course Outline
December 8-10, 2009 1. Mission Analysis. Kepler’s laws. Circular and
elliptical satellite orbits. Altitude regimes. Period of
Beltsville, Maryland revolution. Geostationary Orbit. Orbital elements. Ground
trace.
March 16-18, 2010 2. Earth-Satellite Geometry. Azimuth and elevation.
Slant range. Coverage area.
Boulder, Colorado 3. Signals and Spectra. Properties of a sinusoidal
wave. Synthesis and analysis of an arbitrary waveform.
$1740 (8:30am - 4:30pm) Fourier Principle. Harmonics. Fourier series and Fourier
"Register 3 or More & Receive $10000 each transform. Frequency spectrum.
Off The Course Tuition." 4. Methods of Modulation. Overview of modulation.
Carrier. Sidebands. Analog and digital modulation. Need for
RF frequencies.
5. Analog Modulation. Amplitude Modulation (AM).
Frequency Modulation (FM).
Instructor 6. Digital Modulation. Analog to digital conversion.
BPSK, QPSK, 8PSK FSK, QAM. Coherent detection and
Dr. Robert A. Nelson is president of Satellite carrier recovery. NRZ and RZ pulse shapes. Power spectral
Engineering Research Corporation, a density. ISI. Nyquist pulse shaping. Raised cosine filtering.
consulting firm in Bethesda, Maryland, 7. Bit Error Rate. Performance objectives. Eb/No.
with clients in both commercial industry Relationship between BER and Eb/No. Constellation
and government. Dr. Nelson holds the diagrams. Why do BPSK and QPSK require the same
degree of Ph.D. in physics from the power?
University of Maryland and is a licensed 8. Coding. Shannon’s theorem. Code rate. Coding gain.
Professional Engineer. He is coauthor of Methods of FEC coding. Hamming, BCH, and Reed-
the textbook Satellite Communication Solomon block codes. Convolutional codes. Viterbi and
Systems Engineering, 2nd ed. (Prentice Hall, 1993). He sequential decoding. Hard and soft decisions.
is a member of IEEE, AIAA, APS, AAPT, AAS, IAU, and Concatenated coding. Turbo coding. Trellis coding.
ION. 9. Bandwidth. Equivalent (noise) bandwidth. Occupied
bandwidth. Allocated bandwidth. Relationship between
bandwidth and data rate. Dependence of bandwidth on
Additional Materials methods of modulation and coding. Tradeoff between
In addition to the course notes, each participant will bandwidth and power. Emerging trends for bandwidth
efficient modulation.
receive a book of collected tutorial articles written by
the instructor and soft copies of the link budgets 10. The Electromagnetic Spectrum. Frequency bands
used for satellite communication. ITU regulations. Fixed
discussed in the course. Satellite Service. Direct Broadcast Service. Digital Audio
Radio Service. Mobile Satellite Service.
11. Earth Stations. Facility layout. RF components.
Testimonials Network Operations Center. Data displays.
“Great handouts. Great presentation. 12. Antennas. Antenna patterns. Gain. Half power
Great real-life course note examples beamwidth. Efficiency. Sidelobes.
and cd. The instructor made good use 13. System Temperature. Antenna temperature. LNA.
Noise figure. Total system noise temperature.
of student’s experiences." 14. Satellite Transponders. Satellite communications
payload architecture. Frequency plan. Transponder gain.
“Very well prepared and presented. TWTA and SSPA. Amplifier characteristics. Nonlinearity.
Intermodulation products. SFD. Backoff.
The instructor has an excellent grasp
15. The RF Link. Decibel (dB) notation. Equivalent
of material and articulates it well” isotropic radiated power (EIRP). Figure of Merit (G/T). Free
space loss. WhyPower flux density. Carrier to noise ratio.
“Outstanding at explaining and The RF link equation.
defining quantifiably the theory 16. Link Budgets. Communications link calculations.
Uplink, downlink, and composite performance. Link budgets
underlying the concepts.” for single carrier and multiple carrier operation. Detailed
worked examples.
“Fantastic! It couldn’t have been more 17. Performance Measurements. Satellite modem.
relevant to my work.” Use of a spectrum analyzer to measure bandwidth, C/N,
and Eb/No. Comparison of actual measurements with
theory using a mobile antenna and a geostationary satellite.
“Very well organized. Excellent 18. Multiple Access Techniques. Frequency division
reference equations and theory. Good multiple access (FDMA). Time division multiple access
(TDMA). Code division multiple access (CDMA) or spread
examples.” spectrum. Capacity estimates.
19. Polarization. Linear and circular polarization.
“Good broad general coverage of a Misalignment angle.
complex subject.” 20. Rain Loss. Rain attenuation. Crane rain model.
Effect on G/T.
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13. Satellite Communication
An Essential Introduction
October 20-22, 2009
Beltsville, Maryland
Testimonial: December 15-17, 2009
…I truly enjoyed Beltsville, Maryland
your course and
hearing of your January 18-21, 2010
adventures in the Laurel, Maryland
Satellite business.
You have a definite March 9-11, 2010
gift in teaching style
and explanations.”
Albuquerque, New Mexico
$1590 (8:30am - 4:30pm)
Summary "Register 3 or More & Receive $10000 each
This introductory course has recently been expanded to Off The Course Tuition."
three days by popular demand. It has been taught to
thousands of industry professionals for more than two Course Outline
decades, to rave reviews. The course is intended primarily for
1. Satellites and Telecommunication. Introduction
non-technical people who must understand the entire field of
and historical background. Legal and regulatory
commercial satellite communications, and who must
environment of satellite telecommunications: industry
understand and communicate with engineers and other
issues; standards and protocols; regulatory bodies;
technical personnel. The secondary audience is technical
satellite services and applications; steps to licensing a
personnel moving into the industry who need a quick and
system. Telecommunications users, applications, and
thorough overview of what is going on in the industry, and who
markets: fixed services, broadcast services, mobile
need an example of how to communicate with less technical
services, navigation services.
individuals. The course is a primer to the concepts, jargon,
buzzwords, and acronyms of the industry, plus an overview of 2. Communications Fundamentals. Basic definitions
commercial satellite communications hardware, operations, and measurements: decibels. The spectrum and its uses:
and business environment. properties of waves; frequency bands; bandwidth. Analog
and digital signals. Carrying information on waves: coding,
Concepts are explained at a basic level, minimizing the use
modulation, multiplexing, networks and protocols. Signal
of math, and providing real-world examples. Several
quality, quantity, and noise: measures of signal quality;
calculations of important concepts such as link budgets are
noise; limits to capacity; advantages of digital.
presented for illustrative purposes, but the details need not be
understood in depth to gain an understanding of the concepts 3. The Space Segment. The space environment:
illustrated. The first section provides non-technical people with gravity, radiation, solid material. Orbits: types of orbits;
the technical background necessary to understand the space geostationary orbits; non-geostationary orbits. Orbital
and earth segments of the industry, culminating with the slots, frequencies, footprints, and coverage: slots; satellite
importance of the link budget. The concluding section of the spacing; eclipses; sun interference. Out to launch:
course provides an overview of the business issues, including launcher’s job; launch vehicles; the launch campaign;
major operators, regulation and legal issues, and issues and launch bases. Satellite systems and construction: structure
trends affecting the industry. Attendees receive a copy of the and busses; antennas; power; thermal control;
instructor's new textbook, Satellite Communications for the stationkeeping and orientation; telemetry and command.
Non-Specialist, and will have time to discuss issues pertinent Satellite operations: housekeeping and communications.
to their interests. 4. The Ground Segment. Earth stations: types,
hardware, and pointing. Antenna properties: gain;
directionality; limits on sidelobe gain. Space loss,
Instructor electronics, EIRP, and G/T: LNA-B-C’s; signal flow through
Dr. Mark R. Chartrand is a consultant and lecturer in satellite an earth station.
telecommunications and the space sciences. 5. The Satellite Earth Link. Atmospheric effects on
For a more than twenty-five years he has signals: rain; rain climate models; rain fade margins. Link
presented professional seminars on satellite budgets: C/N and Eb/No. Multiple access: SDMA, FDMA,
technology and on telecommunications to TDMA, CDMA; demand assignment; on-board
satisfied individuals and businesses multiplexing.
throughout the United States, Canada, Latin 6. Satellite Communications Systems. Satellite
America, Europe and Asia. communications providers: satellite competitiveness;
Dr. Chartrand has served as a technical competitors; basic economics; satellite systems and
and/or business consultant to NASA, Arianespace, GTE operators; using satellite systems. Issues, trends, and the
Spacenet, Intelsat, Antares Satellite Corp., Moffett-Larson- future.
Johnson, Arianespace, Delmarva Power, Hewlett-Packard,
and the International Communications Satellite Society of
Japan, among others. He has appeared as an invited expert What You Will Learn
witness before Congressional subcommittees and was an • How do commercial satellites fit into the telecommunications
invited witness before the National Commission on Space. He industry?
was the founding editor and the Editor-in-Chief of the annual • How are satellites planned, built, launched, and operated?
The World Satellite Systems Guide, and later the publication • How do earth stations function?
Strategic Directions in Satellite Communication. He is author
of six books and hundreds of articles in the space sciences. • What is a link budget and why is it important?
He has been chairman of several international satellite • What legal and regulatory restrictions affect the industry?
conferences, and a speaker at many others. • What are the issues and trends driving the industry?
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14. Satellite Design & Technology
Cost-Effective Design for Today's Missions
Course Outline
1. Space Systems Engineering. Elements of space
November 3-6, 2009 systems engineering. Setting the objective. Establishing
requirements. System "drivers." Mission analysis and
Beltsville, Maryland design. Budgeted items. Margins. Project phases. Design
reviews.
April 20-23, 2010 2. Designing for the Space Environment. Vacuum
Laurel, Maryland and drag. Microgravity. Temperature and thermal
gradients. Magnetic field. Ultraviolet. Solar pressure.
$1650 3.5 Days (8:30am - 4:30pm) Ionizing radiation. Spacecraft charging. Space debris. Pre-
launch and launch environments.
"Register 3 or More & Receive $10000 each
Off The Course Tuition." 3. Orbits and Astrodynamics. Review of spacecraft
orbital mechanics. Coordinate systems. Orbital elements.
Selecting an orbit. Orbital transfer. Specialized orbits. Orbit
Summary perturbations. Interplanetary missions.
Renewed emphasis on cost effective missions requires 4. On-Orbit Propulsion and Launch Systems.
up-to-date knowledge of satellite technology and an in- Mathematical formulation of rocket equations. Spacecraft
depth understanding of the systems engineering issues. onboard propulsion systems. Station keeping and attitude
Together, these give satellite engineers and managers control. Satellite launch options.
options in selecting lower cost approaches to building 5. Attitude Determination and Control. Spacecraft
reliable spacecraft. This 3-1/2 day course covers all the attitude dynamics. Attitude torque modeling. Attitude
important technologies needed to develop lower cost sensors and actuators. Passive and active attitude control.
space systems. In addition to covering the traditional flight Attitude estimators and controllers. New applications,
hardware disciplines, attention is given to integration and methods, HW.
testing, software, and R&QA.
6. Spacecraft Power Systems. Power source options.
The emphasis is on the enabling technology Energy storage, control, and distribution. Power
developments, including new space launch options that converters. Designing the small satellite power system.
permit doing more with less in space today. Case studies
7. Spacecraft Thermal Control. Heat transfer
and examples drawn from modern satellite missions
fundamentals for spacecraft.Modern thermal materials.
pinpoint the key issues and tradeoffs in modern design and
Active vs. passive thermal control. The thermal design
illustrate lessons learned from past successes and
procedure.
failures. Technical specialists will also find the broad
perspective and system engineering viewpoint useful in 8. Spacecraft Configuration and Structure.
communicating with other specialists to analyze design Structural design requirements and interfaces.
options and tradeoffs. The course notes provide an Requirements for launch, staging, spin stabilization.
authoritative reference that focuses on proven techniques Design, analysis, and test. Modern structural materials and
and guidelines for understanding, designing, and design concepts. Margins of safety. Structural dynamics
managing modern satellite systems. and testing.
9. Spacecraft RF Communications. RF signal
Instructors transmission. Antennas. One-way range equation.
Properties and peculiarities of the space channel.
Eric Hoffman has 40 years of space experience including 19 Modulating the RF. Dealing with noise. Link margin. Error
years as Chief Engineer of the Johns Hopkins correction. RF link design.
Applied Physics Laboratory Space
Department, which has designed and built 64 10. Spacecraft Command and Telemetry. Command
spacecraft. He joined APL in 1964, designing receivers, decoders, and processors. Command
high reliability spacecraft command, messages. Synchronization, error detection and
communications, and navigation systems and correction. Encryption and authentication. Telemetry
holds several patents in this field. He has led systems. Sensors, signal conditioning, and A/D
many of APL's system and spacecraft conversion. Frame formatting. Packetization. Data
conceptual designs. Fellow of the British Interplanetary compression.
Society, Associate Fellow of the AIAA, and coauthor of 11. Spacecraft On-board Computing. Central
Fundamentals of Space Systems.
processing units for space. Memory types. Mass storage.
Dr. Jerry Krassner has been involved in aerospace R&D for Processor input/output. Spacecraft buses. Fault tolerance
over 30 years. Over this time, he has participated in or led a and redundancy. Radiation hardness, upset, and latchup.
variety of activities with primary technical Hardware/software tradeoffs. Software development and
focus on sensor systems R&D, and business
engineering.
focus on new concept development and
marketing. He has authored over 60 research 12. Reliability and Quality Assurance. Hi-rel
papers, served on advisory panels for DARPA principles: lessons learned. Designing for reliability. Using
and the Navy, and was a member of the US redundancy effectively. Margins and derating. Parts quality
Air Force Scientific Advisory Board (for which and process control. Configuration management. Quality
he was awarded the USAF Civilian Exemplary Service Award). assurance, inspection, and test. ISO 9000.
Jerry was a founding member, and past Chairman, of the 13. Integration and Test. Planning for I&T. Ground
MASINT Association. Currently, he is a consultant to a support systems. I&T facilities. Verification matrix. Test
National Security organization, and acting chief scientist for an
plans and other important documents. Testing
office in OSD, responsible for identification and assessment of
new enabling technologies. Jerry has a PhD in Physics and
subsystems. Spacecraft level testing. Launch site
Astronomy from the University of Rochester. operations. Which tests are worthwhile, which aren’t?
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