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Note: Dr. Robert A. Nelson, P.E., president of Satellite Engineering Research Corporation, a satellite engineering consulting firm in Bethesda, MD, is a contributing writer to Via Satellite and a frequent ATI lecturer, whose course Satellite Communication Systems Engineering: LEO, MEO, GEO covers a broad array of topics in satellite communications, including a detailed technical review of the Iridium system. It will be offered June 15-17 in Beltsville, MD. See ATI's current Schedule of ATI Space, Communications, Radar and Sonar Courses) for additions and updates.

You are invited to visit Satellite Engineering Research Corporation to learn more about satellite engineering and its president, Dr. Nelson.

• Advances in Spacecraft Technology

• Antennas: The Interface With Space

• Earth Station High Power Amplifiers — KPA, TWTA, or SSPA?

• Earth Station Technology — The Smarts Behind the Dish

• The Global Positioning Satellite

• The International System of Units (SI)

• Iridium: From Concept to Reality

• Modulation, Power, and Bandwidth — Tradeoffs in Communication Systems Design

• A Primer on Satellite Communications

• What Is the Radius of the Geostationary Orbit?

• Rain — How It Affects the Communications Link

• Rocket Science — Technology Trends in Propulsion

• Satellite Constellation Geometry

• Spacecraft Battery Technology

• V-Band — Expansion of the Spectrum Frontier

Essays and Articles on Rockets, Physics and Space — by Thomas Logsdon

Thomas S. Logsdon, is an award-winning rocket scientist with an international reputation. He has written and published 1.5 million words, including 27 nonfiction books. He has delivered 700 lectures, helped design an exhibit for the Smithsonian Institution, applied for a patent, and made guest appearances on 25 television shows.

A highly innovative mathematician and systems analyst in the aerospace industry, Logsdon has helped mastermind such large and complicated projects as the Apollo moon flights, NASA's orbiting Skylab, and the DoD's Navstar navigation system. In the past decade, Logsdon has taught more than one hundred 2-day and 3-day short courses in 18 different countries scattered across five continents.

• Schemes for Enhancing the Saturn V Translunar Payload Capability.

• Rocket Propulsion Fundamentals

• Using Wounded Dogs to Navigate Ships on the High Seas

• Watching an Apple Falling from a Tree

• Booster Rocket Pioneers

• Routing Ships on the High Seas

• Some Spectacular Space-Age Repairs

• Hazardous Encounters with Orbital Space Debris

• The Growing Hazard of Artificial Space Debris

• The Shot Heard 'Round Aunt Effie's Cabbage Patch

• Striking It Rich In Space

An Essay on Wavelets — by D. Lee Fugal

D. Lee Fugal has over 30 years of industry experience in Digital Signal Processing (including Wavelets) and Satellite Communications. He has taught upper-division University courses in DSP and in Satellites as well as Wavelet short courses and seminars for Practicing Engineers and Management. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, and a recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal. His ATI course, Wavelets: A Conceptual Practical Approach is being presented February 24-26 in San Diego, CA, and June 1-3 in Beltsville, MD.

• Wavelets — Beyond Comparison.

• Wavelets — A Conceptual Approach

Essays on Systems Engineering and Project Management — by Eric Honour

• Value of Systems Engineering – SECOE Research Project Report
• Top Five Systems Engineering Issues In Defense Industry

Eric Honour is presenter of the following ATI courses:

• CSEP Preparation
  
• Fundamentals of Systems Engineering
  
• Applied Systems Engineering
  
• Architecting with DODAF
  
• Project Scope Management
  
• Principles of Test & Evaluation
  
• Systems of Systems
  
• Systems of Systems

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An Essay on Universal Architecture Description Framework by Jeff O. Grady

Modern structured analysis (MSA) evolved under the leadership of Edward Yourdon, Tom Demarco, and a host of other software developers. It is a functional analysis approach recognizing computer processing in the form of bubbles that are interconnected by directed line segments that route data between processing bubbles and temporary stores to form a data flow diagram (DFD). A data dictionary defines all of the data flows and stores and a p-spec defines the computer processing that must take place in each lowest tier bubble. Requirements are derived from the p-specs and data dictionary. Derek Hatley and Imtiaz Pirbhai teamed to describe a variation on MSA that added a second analytical plane for analysis of control needs expressed in a control flow diagram (CFD) separated from the computer processing plane expressed on the DFD. After Imtiaz's death Peter Hruschka joined Derek to continue the development of what they now call a Process for System Architecture and Requirements Engineering (PSARE). Continue to read here

Jeff O. Grady is presenter of the following ATI courses:

• Systems Engineering - Requirements
  
• Grand Systems Management
  
• Grand Systems Synthesis
  
• Total Systems Engineering Development & Management
  
• Systems Engineering—Synthesis
  
• Certified Systems Engineering Professional Training
  
• Systems Engineering—Verification

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Essays on Submarines — by Captain Raymond B. Wellborn, U.S. Navy (retired)

Capt. Captain Raymond B. Wellborn served 13 years in the submarine fleet. He annually teaches a three-day course for the Applied Technology Institute, Submarines and Their Combat Systems.

• The Efficacy of Submarine Warships

• The USS Virginia—America's Newest Nuclear Sub

• Some Cosmographic Data

• USS TEXAS (SSN 775) — Joins the Fleet
  More about the Navy:
  • OPNAV Organizational Alignment

  • NAVY Organization – The Shore Establishment

  • US NAVY Links Of Interest

Essays and tutorials on Hyperspectral & Multispectral Imaging — by Dr. Richard Gomez