Research

Research includes R & D related to:

• Development of advanced satellite technology and systems concepts, particularly with regard to antenna systems, orbital configurations, and networking designs.
• Development of new wireless communications technologies and applications related to broadband urban systems, “smart buildings”
• Application of new standards and interoperability networking concepts, particularly with regard to satellite and wireless systems
• New satellite applications and services
• Space safety standards and procedures
  

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Selected Publications

• Joseph N. Pelton, “The Rise of Telecities : Decentralizing the Global Society” in Thinking Creatively in Turbulent Times,” (edited by Howard Didsbury, Jr. et) (2004) World Future Society, Bethesda, Maryland
• Joseph N. Pelton, “The Future of Broadband Satellite Communications”, Global Peace Through the Global University System (edited by Tapio Varis, Tak Utsumi and W.R. Klemm), (2003), Tampere, Finland: The Finnish National Council for UNESCO,
• Joseph N. Pelton, “Top Ten Reasons for Space” Space News, Fall 2003
• Joseph N. Pelton, "The Global Brain", The Futurist, September-October, 1999.
• Joseph N. Pelton, “The Next Billion Years: Space and the Human Challenge” in the introduction to Space and the Global Village: Tele-services for the 21st Century, (1998) Boston, Kluwer Academic Publishers.
• Joseph N. Pelton, “Telecommunications in the 21st Century”, Scientific American, (April, 1998, Vol. 278, No. 4, pp 68-73 plus cover artwork)
• Joseph N. Pelton, Introduction to Exploring the Unknown Vol. III: Using Space (edited by John M. Logsdon et al (1998) Washington, D.C.: NASA.
• Joseph N. Pelton, “Global Review of Satellite Communications” Via Satellite, September 1998
• Joseph N. Pelton and Burton I. Edelson, “Reinventing INTELSAT and INMARSAT” Aerospace America, January 1997, pp. 28-33.
• Joseph N. Pelton, “Inter Satellite Links” and “Overview of Satellite Communications” technical articles for The Encyclopedia of Telecommunications (edited by Fritz E. Froehlich and Allen Kent) Volumes 9 and 14 1996/97)
• Joseph N. Pelton, “Cyberlearning vs. the University” The Futurist November-December 1996, Volume 30, No. 6, pp. 17-20

(Note: This is only a selective list of recent articles from over 300 articles published since the 1970s)

Books

• Joseph N. Pelton, Future Trends in Satellite Communications, (Chicago: Illinois, Professional Education International, 2005)
• Joseph N. Pelton, David Smith, Neil Helm, Peter MacDoran, Philip Caughran and John Logsdon, Space Safety Report: Vulnerabilities and Risk Reduction in U.S. Human Space Flight Programs, (2005) George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
• Joseph N. Pelton, Jack Oslund and Peter Marshall (editors), Satellite Communications: Global Change Agents, (2004) Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, New Jersey.
• Joseph N. Pelton, Basics of Satellite Communications. (2003) Chicago, Illinois: International Engineering Consortium.
• Takashi Iida, Joseph N. Pelton, and Ed Asford (editors), Key Trends in 21st Century Satellite Communications, (2003) Washington, D.C., AIAA.
• Joseph N. Pelton, The New Satellite Industry, (2002) Chicago, Illinois: International Engineering Consortium.
• Joseph N. Pelton, E-Sphere: The Rise of the World-Wide Mind, (2000) Bridgeport, Conn.: Quorum Press.
• Joseph N. Pelton, Satellite Communications 2001 (2000) Chicago, Illinois: International Engineering Consortium.
• Joseph N. Pelton and Alfred U.MacRae (eds), Global Satellite Communications Technology and Systems (1998) Washington, D.C: NASA/ITRI.
• Joseph N. Pelton, The Satellite Revolution (1998) Chicago, Illinois: International Engineering Consortium.
• Joseph N. Pelton, The Wireless Industry and the Coming Personal Communications Service Revolution (1997) Chicago, Illinois: International Engineering Consortium.
• Joseph N. Pelton, Wireless and Satellite Telecommunications (1996) Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.
• Joseph N. Pelton, The “How to” Book of Satellite Communications, (1996-2nd Edition) (1991-1st Edition) Sonoma, CA: Design Publishers.
• Joseph N. Pelton (ed), Future Vision (1995) Boulder, Colorado: Arthur C. Clarke Foundation of the U.S.
• Joseph N. Pelton (ed), Worldwide Guide to Tele-Education (1994) Boulder, Colorado: University of Colorado. Burton Edelson and Joseph N. Pelton (eds), Satellite Communications Technology and Systems (1993) Baltimore, MD: World Technology Evaluation Center.
• Joseph N. Pelton, Future Talk (1993) Boulder, Colorado: Cross Communications.
• Joseph N. Pelton (ed), Space 30 (1988) Washington, D.C.: Society of Satellite Professional International.
• Joseph N. Pelton and John Howkins, Satellites International, (1987) London: MacMillan Press.
• Joseph N. Pelton (ed) Bridging the Gap (Vols. 1,2.3) (1986) Washington, D.C.: INTELSAT.
• Joseph N. Pelton and Joel Alper (eds), The INTELSAT Global Satellite System (1986) New York, N.Y.: AIAA.
• Joseph N. Pelton, Global Talk (1984) Aaphen en den Rhyn, Sijthoff and Noordhoff. (Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and winner of the first literature prize of the American Astrological Society (AAS)
• Joseph N. Pelton and Marcellus Snow, Economics and Politics in Satellite Telecommunications (New York, N.Y.: Praeger Special Studies, 1977) Joseph N. Pelton, Global Satellite Telecommunications Policy: INTELSAT, Politics and Functionalism (Mt. Airy, Md.: Lomond Systems, 1974)

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