The ESA Joint Board on Communication Satellite Programme met last 2-3 May at the offices of the Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES) in Toulouse, France.
The main goals of this meeting were to approve a group of demonstrative projects in the scope of the Integrated Applications Programme (IAP).
The cost plan of ongoing activities in the Department of Telecommunications and Integrated Applications was approved and recommended to the ESA Council. Also voted on and approved were several requests to transfer amounts between ARTES programmes subscribed by various member states. A decision was also made to approve the cancellation of a certain number of activities under the Advanced Technology Programme which did not include projects considered feasible by the ESA or which were not received as expected by the space industry of the various member states.
Other topics debated at this meeting concerned the preparation of specific rules of procedures to apply in the future to various ARTES programmes, namely to some public-private partnership programmes (SUNRISE), and the preparation of reports on the current situation of various telecommunication programmes.
The current situation of technologies, products and systems was presented, along with the coordination between space and terrestrial components for implementation of 5G networks and questions in the scope of the Govsatcom Programme.
