Development of novel satellite mobile applications: the SINUS project

A huge European effort has been deployed in the UMTS definition and standardisation framework. Since the system aims at being “universal”, and “mobile”, a great deal of the preparations consist of identifying future service needs and analysing all technical and technological problems before system development. This work has been undertaken in European research bodies, industry and standardisation organisations, and has had extensive progress in the terrestrial domain. On the other hand, a great deal of work remains for the integration of the satellite component, and this concerns all aspects of the system. Work on this has been started in previous RACE projects such as MONET and SAINT. The results obtained in these projects are used as a basis for the SINUS project