ESA Open Invitation To Tender AO7424
Open Date: 20/02/2013
Closing Date: 08/05/2013

Status: ISSUED
Reference Nr.: 13.1TT.60
Prog. Ref.: ARTES 5.1
Budget Ref.: E/0505-01A – ARTES 5.1
Special Prov.: B+DK+F+D+I+NL+E+S+CH+GB+IRL+A+N+FIN+POR+GR+LUX+CZ+RO+CDN
Tender Type: C
Price Range: 200-500 KEURO
Keywords: ENGINEERING/ TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Establishment: ESTEC
Directorate: Directorate Telecom & Integrated Applica Department: Telecom Technologies,Product&Systems Dep
Division: Future Projects Division
Contract Officer: Nicole Rinaudo
Last Update Date: 19/03/2013
Update Reason: Loaded a new Clarification(English version)

The activity shall characterise the possible interference environment in the Ka shared band accounting for the relevant regulations, and to investigate techniques to mitigate interference from terrestrial systems in the Ka shared band to allow using this band forbroadband services. Targeted Improvements: Beam hopping can match offered capacity with traffic demand. Compared to uniform power and bandwidth assignment per user beam, the beam hopping provides 50% reduction of DC power consumption. Using the beam hopping, one power amplifier can serve up to 8 beams providing significant saving in required mass particularly for multi-beam systems with user link in Ka band with a large number of beams. Description: For the full description of this activity, please consult the telecom website: http://telecom.esa.int/telecom – ‘current and future tenders’. Procurement Policy: C(1) = Activity restricted to non-prime contractors (incl. SMEs). For additional information please go to EMITS news “Industrial Policy measures for non-primes, SMEs and R&D entities in ESA programmes”.

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