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THE FUTURE IS IN THE SKIES

M.Kemal ATATÜRK

Founder of Turkish Republic

WITH THE CONTRIBUTIONS FROM

AZERBAIJAN

BRAZIL

BULGARIA

EGYPT

FRANCE

GERMANY

ITALY

PAKISTAN

ROMANIA

TURKEY

USA

WORKSHOP COMMITEES

Organized by:

Aeronautics and Space Technologies Institute (ASTIN), Turkish Air Force Academy, Turkey

Istanbul Technical University, Turkey

Boğaziçi University, Turkey

Marmara University, Turkey

Bahçeşehir University, Turkey

Yıldız Technical University, Turkey

Istanbul Commerce University, Turkey

Golden Horn University, Turkey

Co-sponsored by:

TÜBİTAK (Scientific & Tech. Res. Council of Turkey)

Honorary Chair:

Major General Abidin Ünal

(Commander, TuAF Academy)

General Chair:

Col. Sefer Kurnaz (ASTIN)

Technical Program Co-chairs:

Fuat Ince (ASTIN and Marmara Univ.)

M. Fevzi Ünal (ASTIN and İTÜ)

Advisory Committee:

Özer Arnas (USMA)

Mitat Birkan (AFOSR)

Arsev Eraslan (NASA-Retired)

Iskender Gökalp (CNRS)

Temel Kotil (THY)

Tuncer Alpata(Alp Aviation)

Mansoor Malik (IGIS-NUST, IEEE-AESS)

Ramesh Malla (ASCE)

Mark S. Maurice (AFOSR/IO)

Alberto Moreira (GRSS, IEEE)

Cengiz Ultav (VESTEL)

International Relations Co-chairs:

Tayfun Günel (ASTIN and İTÜ)

Okyay Kaynak (ASTIN and Boğaziçi Univ.)

Publications Co-Chairs:

Maj. Ali Başaran (ASTIN)

Capt. Orhan Gözaydın (ASTIN)

Publicity Co-Chairs:

Hakan Temeltaş (ASTIN and İTÜ)

Cengiz Toklu (Yıldız Tech. Univ.)

Organization Committee:

Col. Erden Ülgen (TuAFA)

Col. Ahmet Cural (TuAFA)

Capt. Hakkı Aktaş (ASTIN)

Maj. Süleyman Baştürk (ASTIN)

Semra Birgün (ASTIN and Ist. Comm. Univ.)

1^st Lt. M. Boran Çığırtkan (ASTIN)

Sami Ercan (ASTIN and Haliç Univ.)

1^ST Lt. Ali Ergin (ASTIN)

Ali Okatan (ASTIN and Haliç Univ.)

Capt. Özden Kaplankıran (ASTIN)

Seyhan Onbaşıoğlu (ASTIN and İTÜ)

Oya Kalıpsız (Yıldız Tech. Univ.)

Coşkun Sönmez (Yıldız Tech. Univ.)

Col.Serdar Kargın(TUAF)

Şenay Yalçın (Bahçeşehir Univ.)

M. Adil Yükselen (ASTIN and İTÜ)

Özalp Vayvay (ASTIN and Marmara Univ)

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Emin Anarım (TR)	Mario Innocenti (IT)
Serkan Anılır (JP)	Ram Jakhu (CA)
Ömer Anlağan (TR)	Niklas Jarvstrat (SW)
Shahram Ariafar (NO)	Osman Kalden (D)
A. Rustem Aslan (TR)	Victor Khoroshilov (UA)
İlhami Aygün (FR)	Anton Lazarov (BG)
Khalid Bashir (PK)	Derya Maktav (TR)
Haym Benaroya (US)	Hiroshi Matsumoto (JP)
Jon Benediktsson (IC)	Sias Mostert (SA)
Brian J. Cantwell (US)	Saida Salahova (AZ)
R. Murat Demirer (TR)	Atsuhiro Nishida (JP)
Michael Duke (US)	Ali Okatan (TR)
Murat Efe (TR)	Tamer Ozalp (TR)
William Emery (US)	Gilbert L. Rochon (US)
Alptekin Erkollar (AU)	Rustam Rustamov (AZ)
Okan Ersoy (US)	Vladislav Rutkovsky (RU)
Rick Fleeter (US)	Rainer Sandau (D)
Huijun Gao (CN)	Hamit Serbest (TR)
Süleyman Gökoğlu (US)	Zafar Taqvi (US)
Özgür Gürtuna (CA)	İsmail Hakkı Tuncer (TR)
Çingiz Hacıyev (AZ)	Robert Twiggs (US)
Fred Y. Hadaegh (US)	Osman N. Uçan (TR)
Flemming Hansen (DK)	Peter Willett (US)
Mubussar Hussein (PK)	Jan.P.B. Vreeburg (NL)
Beycan İbrahimoğlu (AZ)	Şenay Yalçın (TR)
Amnon Ginati (EU)	Bingül Yazgan (TR)
Masashi Hayakawa (JP)	Stanislav Zemlyakov (RU)
Fei-Bin Hsiao (TW)

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PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

INVITED SPEAKERS

No	Name/Surname	Affiliation	Title of Speech	Session Date	Session Time
1	Brig. Gen. Adnan Demirci	Turkish Air Forces	Turkish Air Forces’ Vision for Space and Satellite Studies	05 June 2008	09.15-09.35
2	Rainer Sandau	DLR	Small Satellite Missions – Trends and Visions	05 June 2008	09.35-10.00
2	Rainer Sandau	DLR	Conditions for High Resolution Imaging with Small Satellites	06 June 2008	09.30-10.00
3	Robert H. Meurer	ATK Space Systems Inc.	21st Century Microsatellites A “Smart” Alternative to Conventional Space Systems	05 June 2008	11.00-11.30
4	Uğur Leloğlu	TÜBİTAK		05 June 2008	11.30-12.00
5	Rustam B. Rustamov	International Astronautical Federation	Small Satellites – Development and Implementation	05 June 2008	12.00-12.30

OPENING SESSION

05 JUNE 2008 THURSDAY

09.00-10.30

Chair : Fuat İnce Room: Atatürk Hall

Time	Program
09.00-09.05	National Anthem
09.05-09.10	Welcoming Speech of Major General Abidin ÜNAL (Commander, TuAF Academy)
09.10-09.15	Speech of the General Chair, Col. Sefer KURNAZ (ASTIN, TuAF)
09.15-10.00	Plenary Session-1
10.00-10.30	Performance by Historic Janissary Band
10.30-11.00	Coffee Break

PLENARY SESSIONS

05 JUNE 2008 THURSDAY

09.15-10.30

Plenary-1: Plenary Session-1

Chair : Fuat İnce Room: Atatürk Hall

No	Title	Author(s)
1	Turkish Air Forces’ Vision for Space and Satellite Studies	Brig. Gen. Adnan Demirci
2	Small Satellite Missions – Trends and Visions	Rainer Sandau

11.00-12.30

Plenary-2: Plenary Session-2

Chair : Okyay Kaynak Room: Atatürk Hall

No	Title	Author(s)
1	21st Century Microsatellites A “Smart” Alternative to Conventional Space Systems	Robert H. Meurer
2		Uğur Leloğlu
3	Small Satellites – Development and Implementation	Sefer Kurnaz, Rustam B. Rustamov

05 JUNE 2008 THURSDAY

14.00-15.30

Session 1 : New Concepts and Missions

Chair : Robert H. Meurer Room : Fevzi Çakmak Hall

No	Title	Author(s)
1	Technology Demonstration for Autonomous Constellation and Distributed Computing	William W. Saylor
2	Single Chip Index Based Reasoner (SCIBR) for Small Satellites	Ming Li, Mustafa Demetgul, Ibrahim Tansel
3	Spacecraft Operations – Preparation, Challenges, Operators, Training	O. Kalden, M. Sweeney, C. Bodemann
4	A New Routing Algorithm Constructed For LEO Satellite Systems	Derya Yıltaş, A. Halim Zaim
5	Cluster Micro-Satellite InSAR Model	Andon Dimitrov Lazarov

16.00-17.30

Session 2 : Tools and Algorithms-1

Chair : Uğur Leloğlu Room : Fevzi Çakmak Hall

No	Title	Author(s)
1	Flight Dynamic Analysis of ITUpSAT-1	Ozan Oğuz Haktanır, Melahat Cihan, İlke Akbulut and A. Rüstem Aslan
2	Preliminary Earth Observation Mission Design with the Mission Analysis Tool	Burak Akbulut, Alkan Altay, Ahmet Özkan
3	The Program Tool “ASTRO” and Visualization of a Satellite Tracking System	I. Yusifov, M.E. Özel, A. Yusifov
4	Microsatellites commissioning Hands on experience	Mohamed Mahmoud, Ahmed Hassan, Ayman Mahmoud, Ahmed Farrag, Amal Zaki
5	Quantifying the Effects of Ozone Layer Depletion on Spacecraft Design	M.Ayub Khan Yousuf Zai, M.Rashid Kamal Ansari

06 JUNE 2008 FRIDAY

09.00-10.30

Session 3 : Lowering the Cost

Chair : Arsev Eraslan Room : Fevzi Çakmak Hall

No	Title	Author(s)
1	(Webinar Presentation)	Robert Twiggs
2	Conditions for High Resolution Imaging with Small Satellites (Invited)	Rainer Sandau
3	Use of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf product to minimize design and operations costs of ground station on small satellites	Bruno Dupas
4	Lowering the Cost of Ground Segment Systems	A. Williams, M. Niezette, J. Bone

11.00-12.30

Session 4 : Tools and Algorithms-2

Chair : Rainer Sandau Room : Fevzi Çakmak Hall

No	Title	Author(s)
1	A Simulation tool for payload data volume & downlink latency estimation in a LEO Earth Observation satellite	Mario Cossu, Michelangelo L’Abbate, Adriano Lupi, Ugo Pattacini, Roberto Sigismondi, Paolo Venditti
2	EO satellite data transmission: Bit Error Rate degradation due to on-board non idealities	Mario Cossu, Michelangelo L’Abbate, Adriano Lupi, Ugo Pattacini, Roberto Sigismondi, Paolo Venditti
3	Design & Development of Cold Gas Propulsion System for PRSS-1	Assad Anis
4	Unscented Kalman Filter Based Attitude Estimation of ITU-PSAT I Satellite Using Magnetometer Measurements	Halil Ersin Söken, Chingiz Hajiyev
5	Adaptive EKF with the Filter Gain Correction Applied to Magnetometer Based Attitude Determination System of a LEO Satellite	Chingiz Hajiyev, H.Ersin Söken

06 JUNE 2008 FRIDAY

14.00-15.30

Session 5 : Applications-1

Chair : M. Fevzi Ünal Room : Fevzi Çakmak Hall

No	Title	Author(s)
1	Use of Pseudo-Random Generators in Global Positioning System- A simulation Approach	Oytun Bilgen, R. Murat Demirer
2	Effective Large Area Tactical Land Marking on 3D Mobile WLAN and GPS Enabled Devices	Murat Özyurt, Tuna Tuğcu, Fatih Alagöz
3	Rapid Satellite Deployment of a Consumer Electronics Payload	Marit Meyer
4	Photonic Radio Frequency Generation for Radar and Space Applications	André Garcia Luiz de Souza Garcia, Luciana Soares Franca, Gefeson Mendes Pacheco, Geraldo José Adabo
5	Some theoretical aspects regarding the mathematical model for launching a small satellite on low orbit	Teodor-Viorel Chelaru, Adrian-Viorel Coman

16.00-17.30

Session 6 : Education

Chair : Andon D. Lazarov Room : Fevzi Çakmak Hall

No	Title	Author(s)
1	An Experimental Engineering Model of Attitude Determination and Control System of PRSS-I	Muhammad Raza, Najam Abbass Naqvi, Atiq-ur-Rehman
2	Small Astrophysical X-Ray Monitor Payload for Earth Observing Satellites	Emrah Kalemci, Niels Lund, Ersin Gogus, Ali Alpar
3	ITÜ pSAT I: Getting Ready For Launch	C.Kurtuluş, T. Baltacı, B. Toktamış, I. Akbulut, O. O. Haktanır, G. Inalhan, M. F. Ünal, A. R. Aslan
4	UNISAT-5, UNICubeSAT, EduSAT: Three Italian Projects in Hands-on Education	Filippo Graziani, Maria Libera Battagliere, Fabrizio Piergentili, Fabio Santoni
5	Undergraduate Small Satellite Programs at the U.S. Air Force Academy: Current Status and Future Directions	Martin E.B. France, William W. Saylor

07 JUNE 2008 SATURDAY

09.00-10.30

Session 7 : Operations

Chair : Sefer Kurnaz Room : Fevzi Çakmak Hall

No	Title	Author(s)
1	Satellite Altitude Decay Estimation via GPS Position Data	Burak Akbulut, Alkan Altay, Ahmet Özkan
2	Robust In-Orbit MTF Evaluation & Validation Techniques	Khalid Bashir, Hina Tabassum
3	Differential Sensitivity Analysis for the Accuracy Estimation of Orthorectification of Small Satellite Images	Önder Halis Bettemir
4	Use of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf Product to Minimize Risks and Cost on Small Satellite Ground Segment (EGSE and Operations)	Bruno Dupas

11.00-12.30

Session 8 : Applications-2

Chair : Rustam B. Rustamov Room : Fevzi Çakmak Hall

No	Title	Author(s)
1	Earth Observation, Small Satellites, Natural Disaster	Saida Salahova
2	A Nano Satellite Mission for Autonomous Detection and Observation of the Transient Lunar Phenomenon	Hakan Kayal
3	Design and Power Link budgeting of a space-borne SAR Receiver working in strip map mode	Muhammad Moiz Anis, Hina Tabassum
4	Design of motion compensated FPA (Focal Plane Assembly) for a space borne electro-optical system	Hina Tabassum, Muhammad Moiz Anis

WORKSHOP VENUE

The workshop will be held at Harbiye Military Museum and Cultural Center which is located in downtown Istanbul.

Satellite Image of the Conference Area:

Harbiye Military Museum and Cultural Center:

BUILDING PLANS

PROGRAM OF EVENTS

DATE	EVENT	TIME AND PLACE
05 June 2008	Welcome Cocktail	19:00 Harbiye Turkish Officers’ Club (19th Floor-Çamlıca Hall)
06 June 2008	Workshop Dinner	20:00 Kalender Turkish Officers’ Club (Boğaztepe Restaurant) Departure from Military Museum at 18.00
Notice: Lunches will be served at Harbiye Turkish Officers’ Club

ADMINISTRATIVE GUIDE

1. Security:

a. Overnight custody of the classified documents will be each Delegate’s responsibility.

b. All Delegates are encouraged to carry SSW 2008 or national ID cards. Workshop passes were issued during in processing and are to be worn in the Workshop facilities.

2. Dress Code:

a. Formal clothes will be worn in all formal meetings.

b. Casuals are appropriate for all social activities except the Welcome Cocktail and Workshop Dinner.

3. Transportation:

a. Bus transportation will be provided for the social activities. The schedule is shown in the program of events.

b. Transfers from the hotel to the airport by Travel Organization Company (T.O.C.). If required, ask for details of transfers at the T.O.C. desk.

4. Social Events:

a. Social events are listed in the program of events.

5.Health:

a. In case of a serious health problem, participants are encouraged to inform the Turkish Delegates and T.O.C. representatives.

b. The organization committee is not responsible for the attendee’s insurance.

6. Communications:

a. Secure Communication is not available during the workshop.

b. All telephone calls should be made from individual hotel rooms and will be detailed on the hotel invoice for payment at out-processing. It is the individual’s responsibility to reclaim the cost of duty calls from their appropriate authority/HQ on their return. Turkish Air Force Academy is not responsible for any telephone calls made by attendees at the workshop. Internet connection, a PC, and a printer will be provided for the use of attendees. Public phones are available at the conference area.

7. Miscellaneous:

a. Out-processing will take place at two locations, the T.O.C. desk and the hotel reception.

b. At the T.O.C. desk you will receive 2 vouchers:

Voucher 1 is for accommodation. This is the voucher you completed during in processing and is provided for you to check and sign before it is presented for payment.

Voucher 2 is for other expenses incurred such as participation in the Dinner and other arranged social activities.

These vouchers will be prepared in EURO (or USD upon request). The amount will be converted to Turkish Lira at the bank exchange rate of the day. Payment can be made in cash (USD, EURO or TL). Payment by credit cards will be charged in TL.

The clearance of the vouchers above 24 hours before your departure will make out-processing easier.

At the hotel reception you will receive Voucher 3 which covers all the expenditures e.g. telephone, mini-bar, room service, bar, restaurant etc. Which you have charged to your room during your stay. This voucher will be presented for payment in TL.

c. For payments to T.O.C. and Ramada Plaza Otel / Golden Age I, all major credit cards are accepted.

d. Departure from the Hotel to Istanbul International Airport is usually very early in the morning. Your options are to make your own arrangements or to take advantage of the Transfer arrangement offered by T.O.C. Please inform of your transfer request to T.O.C. 24 hours before your planned departure.

USEFUL TELEPHONE NUMBERS

Harbiye Military Museum	:+90 212-2332720
SSW 2008 Secretariat	:+90 212-6632490/4365 :+90 532-207 62 33(GSM Maj.Süleyman Baştürk)
Police	:155
International Hospital	:+90 212- 663 30 00
American Hospital	:+90 212- 231 40 50
German Hospital	:+90 212- 293 21 50
Rental Cars	:T.O.C. (Travel Organization Company-T.O.C.)
Airlines	:T.O.C. (Travel Organization Company-T.O.C.)
Mrs.Esra Gucuyener (T.O.C.)	:+90 533-370 02 82 (GSM)
Mr. Murat Dugmeli (T.O.C.)	:+90 532-586 93 80 (GSM)
Maj. Süleyman Baştürk	:+90 532-207 62 33 (GSM)

CONSULATES

AZERBAJIAN

Ph.:212 293 21 23

BRAZIL

Ph.:212 2514735

BULGARIA

Ph.: 212 269 04 78

EGYPT

Ph.:212 244 28 95

FRANCE

Ph.:212 249 91 68

GERMANY

Ph. :212 251 54 04

ITALY

Ph.:212 252 54 36

PAKISTAN

Ph.:212 233 58 00

ROMANIA

Ph.:212 292 41 25

UNITED STATES

Ph.:212 2513602