The Online Journal of Space Communication is a cross-disciplinary scholarly publication designed to advance space communication as a profession and as an academic discipline.

The Journal is distributed electronically without charge to users on a global basis. New editions to the Journal will be released three times a year. Individual issues will provide in-depth examination of matters of importance to satellite and space communication in terms of:

Education and Manpower Development
Innovation and Technology
Economy and Business Development
Services and Applications
Regulation and Public Policy
Social Impact
Regional Development

The Journal's goal is to become a credible record and repository for developments of public significance in satellite and space communication, and to promote critical analysis of those developments. Each Journal issue will be designed to make complex historical, technical, economic, regulatory and social issues more accessible and understandable. The Journal will provide historical perspective, help to set a future agenda and stimulate discussion.

 

   
Greetings from Prof. Don Flournoy, the editor of the Online Journal of Space Communication.

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The Online Journal of Space Communication mourns the death of Sir Arthur C. Clarke. Click here for the BBC news coverage.Reminder: Satellite 2008, Feb.25-28, Washington D.C. Convention Center, and SSPI Annual Gala. Click here.Note: Report on Fall Commercial Space Conference at GWU now online as Issue No. 12 of this Journal. Click here.Congratulations Satellite 2007 SSPI Hall of Fame:

- Robert Berry, SS/Loral
- Larry Boisvert, Telsat
- Mary Ann Elliott, Arrowhead
- Yasuo Hirata, KDDI
- Conny Kullman, Intelsat
- Delbert Smith, Jones Day

SES AMERICOM has announced a $50,000 prize named after Sir Arthur C. Clarke to be awarded to a student or student team that best defines a feasible technical or applications concept that might leapfrog the existing state of development of the industry breakthrough satellite. For further information, click here.

The White Paper on Emergency Communications,
prepared by the Space & Advanced Communications Research Institute (SACRI),
George Washington University, is now available. Click here.

The National Space Education Workshop documents are now available.
One-page summary
White Paper on Space Education

Comments by keynote speakers.

 
 
   
Issue No. 12: Commercialization of Space

Issue No. 13: Legacy of COMSAT

Issue No. 11: Role of Satellites in Distance Education
Issue No. 10: Emergency Communications
Issue No. 9: Global Navigation Satellite System
Issue No 8: Regional Development: Indonesia

Issue No. 7:  VSAT communication

Issue No. 6:  Satellite Security

Issue No. 5: Satellites Address the Digital Divide
Issue No. 4: Satellite Communication in Canada
Issue No. 3: Remote Sensing of Earth via Satellite
Issue No. 2: NASA's Advanced Communication Satellite (ACTS)
Issue No. 1: Education and Manpower Training

 

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