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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT [8] S. Ventouras, A. Martellucci, R. Reeves, et
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This experimental work is funded by the ESA properties of Ka/Q band earth‐space radio
contract “ASALASCA - Large Scale Assessment of channel across Europe using Alphasat Aldo
Ka/Q Band Atmospheric Channel using the Paraboni payload”, Int J Satell Commun
ALPHASAT TDP5 Propagation Beacon”.
Network. 2019; 1‐ 25.
The work in RAL-SPACE has been funded by the [9] A. Z. Papafragkakis, A. D. Panagopoulos and S.
EPSRC grant: EP/P024629/1 “Optimising resources Ventouras, "Combined beacon and noise
in future heterogeneous millimetre wave satellite propagation measurements using
communication systems”. software defined radio," 2017 11th European

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