Current Status of Research and Development of Space Communications Technology in NICT

摘要

The third mid-term period for the research and development in the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology started in April 2011 and will last for five years. The organizational structure has been newly re-organized and the former Space Communications Group is now called the Space Communication Systems Laboratory. In this paper, the research and development of space communications technology in the Space Communication Systems Laboratory will be introduced.