JOURNAL Vol. 61 No. 1
Special Issue on the Engineering Test Satellite VIII
(ETS-VIII) Experiments in Geostaionary Orbit
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1 Overview of the Mobile Satellite Communication Experiments using the Engineering Test Satellite VIII
Shinichi TAIRA, Masaki SATOH, Teruaki ORIKASA, and Shin-ichi YAMAMOTO
2 Performance Evaluation Tests of onboard Components for Satellite Communication Experiments
  2-1 Electrical Performance of the Large Deployable Reflector Antenna
Masaki SATOH, Teruaki ORIKASA, and Yoshiyuki FUJINO
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  2-3 Performance Evaluation Experiment of High Power Transponder
Kazuyoshi KAWASAKI
3 Mobile Satellite Communication System Experiments
  3-1 Performance Tests of Mobile Satellite Communication System with High Data Rate
Shinichi TAIRA and Shin-ichi YAMAMOTO
  3-2 Coded Modulation Technique Experiment
Shinichi TAIRA and Huan-Bang LI
  3-3 Evaluation Experiment of the Multicast Communication System
Shin-ichi YAMAMOTO, Kazuyoshi KAWASAKI, and Masaki SATOH
  3-4 Performance Tests of Earth Stations
  3-4-1 Evaluation Experiment of the Base Earth Station
Shin-ichi YAMAMOTO and Kazuyoshi KAWASAKI
  3-4-2 Evaluation Experiments of Mobile Earth Stations
  3-4-2-1 Portable Earth Station
Shin-ichi YAMAMOTO, Yoshiyuki KAWASAKI, and Shinichi KOZONO
  3-4-2-2 Mobile Satellite Communication System High-Functioning Antenna
Amane MIURA and Yoshiyuki FUJINO
4 Communication Application Experiments
  4-1 Error Correction Experiment of Radiation Pattern of Large Reflector Antenna
Teruaki ORIKASA, Masaki SATOH, Shin-ichi YAMAMOTO, Kazuyoshi KAWASAKI, and Yoshiyuki FUJINO
  4-2 Aeronautical Mobile Satellite Data Communication Experiments
Shinichi TAIRA, Masaki SATOH, and Shin-ichi YAMAMOTO
  4-3 Sensor Network Experiment
Shin-ichi YAMAMOTO and Kazuyoshi KAWASAKI
5 Experiment using the Time Comparison Equipment on-board ETS-VIII
  5-1 A High Accuracy Time Comparison using Time Comparison Equipment (TCE) on the Engineering Test Satellite (ETS−VIII)
Maho NAKAMURA, Yasuhiro TAKAHASHI, Fumimaru NAKAGAWA, Ryo TABUCHI, Jun AMAGAI, Shigeru TSUCHIYA, and Shin'ichi HAMA
  5-2 Time Transfer Experiments between Two Ground-based Atomic Clocks using Time Comparison Equipment
Fumimaru NAKAGAWA, Yasuhiro TAKAHASHI, Ryo TABUCHI, Jun AMAGAI, Maho NAKAMURA, Shigeru TSUCHIYA, and Shin'ichi HAMA
  5-3 High Resolution Ranging Experiment using the Time Comparison Equipment
Yasuhiro TAKAHASHI, Hiroo KUNIMORI, Fumimaru NAKAGAWA, Ryo TABUCHI, Jun AMAGAI, Shigeru TSUCHIYA, and Shin'ichi HAMA