CANEUS-Shared Small Satellites CSSP (Collective Security, Safety, and Prosperity) International Workshop

Concept Overview

The concept involves a network of simple ground terminals and nano-satellites to provide access to ”unwired” places: open oceans, polar regions, jungles, and deserts. Access to the entire shared capacity is available to the partner nations that contribute materially to the constellation thus providing a significant return on the individual investment of any participating partner. The multi-national, shared infrastructure promotes cooperation, trust and encourages sharing of data to the mutual benefit of the partners.

A. Ground Stations - Simple and Accessible:
UHF communications that can be received with a portable antenna, accessible to individual and mobile users: a laptop computer, a small antenna, a modem to transform the analog radio frequency electrical signal to digital and a connection to the internet complete the data path from “unwired” regions, through space, to the “wired” world. B. AIS and distributed remote sensors C. Enterprise Server D. User

To-date, it has not been technically possible to establish a sufficiently affordable and transparent capability to allow all nations to participate in a cooperative program to collect situational awareness data from every place on Earth.

By using a global constellation, participating nations can collect and share data from the “unwired world” that then can be used to enhance the safety, security, economic development and environmental protection of each sovereign state.