Experiment of telecom/broadcasting mission using a high-altitude solar-powered aerial vehicle Pathfinder Plus

Author

Miura, Ryu ; Maruyama, Masaaki ; Suzuki, Mikio ; Tsuji, Hiroyuki ; Oodo, Masayuki ; Nishi, Yuichiro

Author_Institution

Commun. Res. Lab., Yokosuka, Japan

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

27-30 Oct. 2002

Firstpage

469

Abstract

A series of telecommunication and broadcasting tests using a high-altitude platform in the stratosphere at an altitude of 20 km was carried out on the Hawaiian island of Kauai in June-July 2002. For the high-altitude platform, we used a NASA solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), Pathfinder Plus. The tests were successfully completed, and the first in the world. This paper provides the configuration of the tests and reports some of their results.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; digital television; high definition television; land mobile radio; remotely operated vehicles; solar powered vehicles; television broadcasting; 20 km; Hawaiian island; IMT-2000; Kauai; NASA; Pathfinder Plus; broadcasting tests; digital HDTV; high-altitude platform; high-altitude solar-powered aerial vehicle; pathfinder-plus; stratosphere; telecom/broadcasting mission; telecommunication tests; Broadcasting; HDTV; NASA; Payloads; Satellite ground stations; Solar powered vehicles; Telecommunications; Terrestrial atmosphere; Testing; Unmanned aerial vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, 2002. The 5th International Symposium on

ISSN

1347-6890

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7442-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WPMC.2002.1088218

Filename

1088218