“…In the frame of a European Space Agency (ESA) funded project, named "On-Ground Beam Forming Networks and Multi User Detection Proof-of-Concept," the companies Space Engineering, Mavigex, and Airbus Defence and Space defined different scenarios of interest for the OGBF along with MUD techniques, based on a single S-Band GEO satellite with a European service area [35]. The project is focused on the definition and design of a laboratory test bed implementing a scaled version of an OGBF/MUD system in order to verify the achievable performance in the context of a return-link network based on the DVB-RCS technology [34].…”