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Aerospace and Electronic

Editors

Contributing Editors
Awards-Erwin C. Gangl
Book Reviews Editor-Darin Dunham
Conferences-Mark Davis
Distinguished Lecturers &
Tutorials-Kathleen Kramer
Education-Kathleen Kramer
History-Hugh D. Griffiths
Student Research-Wenbo Dou,
Federico Lombardi
Technical Panels-Walter Downing
Tutorials Editor-W. Dale Blair
Website Updates-Judy Scharmann

Associate Editors and Areas of
Specialty
Scott Bawden-Energy Conversion
Systems
Erik Blasch, Roberto Sabatini-Avionics
Systems
Dietrich Franken-Communications,
Signal Processing, and Data Fusion
David Crouse-Target Tracking
Mauro De Sanctis-Signal Processing and
Communication in Aerospace Systems
Michael Braasch-Navigation, Positioning
Giancarmine Fasano-UAS
Daniel O'Hagan-Radar Systems
Open-Astronautic and Aeronautic
Systems
Haiying Liu-Control System Engineering
and Robotic Systems
Michael Cardinale-Electro-Optic and
Infrared Systems, Image Processing
Ruhai Wang-Systems Engineering
Peter Willett-Multi-Sensor Systems

IEEE

Editor-in-Chief-Peter K. Willett
Associate Editor-in-Chief-David F.
Crouse
VP Publications-Maria S. Greco
AESS President-Joe Fabrizio
Executive Assistant, AESS
-Judy Scharmann

SYSTEMS
m a g a z i n e

December 2018

ISSN 0885-8985

Volume 33 Number 12

COLUMNS
In This Issue - Technically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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From the Associate Editor-in-Chief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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FEATURE ARTICLES
Passive SAR Satellite Constellation for Near-Persistent Earth
Observation: Prospects and Issues
Michail Antoniou, Andrew G. Stove, Alp Sayin, George Atkinson,
Mikhail Cherniakov, Hui Ma, Heiner Kuschel, Diego Cristallini,
Philipp Wojaczek, Craig I. Underwood, Antonio Moccia, Alfredo Renga,
Giancarmine Fasano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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RF Exciter Subsystem of Ka-Band Cloud Profiling Radar
Rohan Kale, Arvind Agarwal, Krishnan Aurobindo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Lifetime Estimation of Off-The-Shelf Aerospace Power Converters
Mohamed Halick Mohamed Sathik, Sundarajan Prasanth, Firman
Sasongko, Josep Pou . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Queueing Analysis of DTN Protocols in Deep-Space Communications
Guannan Yang, Ruhai Wang, Kanglian Zhao, Xinggan Zhang,
Wenfeng Li, Xiongwen He . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Spectrum Allocations: The Aeronautical Telemetry Story in the USA
Michael Rice, Kip Temple, Timothy Chalfant, Darrell Ernst, Carolyn Kahn . . . 50

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NEWS AND INFORMATION
AESS Resource Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Call for Papers: 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Phased Array
Systems and Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Call for Nominations: The Fred Nathanson Memorial Radar Award . . . . . 49
AESS Historical Interview: Mark Davis
James Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
IEEE Aerospace & Electronic Systems Society Organization 2018 . . . . . . . . 66
2018 Aerospace & Electronic Systems Society Distinguished Lecturers . . . 67
AESS 2018 Senior Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Meetings and Conferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . inside back cover
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