The papers listed below have been selected as "Best Papers" based on the reviews of the original submission, the camera-ready version, and the presentation during the conference. For the awarded papers, a digital award will be issued in the name of the authors. The authors of these papers are also receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Awarded Papers

System Development and Spacecraft Testing of the Morehead State University Ground Station
Timothy Pham, Benjamin Malphrus, Jeffrey Kruth, Robert Kroll, Michael Combs, Tobias Gedenk, Sarah Wilczewski, Jason Liao, Alexander Roberts, Jacob Lewis, Chloe Hart, Emily Mattle, E. Jay Wyatt

High Sensitivity Inter-Satellite Optical Communications Using LEDs and Single Photon Receivers
Alexander D. Griffiths, Johannes Herrnsdorf, Michael J. Strain, Martin D. Dawson

The following papers have been selected on the basis of their contents, specificaly for lending themselves to an interesting extended work. The authors of these papers are receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Papers Invited for IARIA Journals

Satellite 5G: IoT Use Case for Rural Areas Applications
Sastri Kota, Giovanni Giambene

Linear Prediction and Rice Codes Based Two-Stage Method for Lossless Telemetry Data Compression
Mohamed Elshafey

Application of a New Optimal Factorization of the SDRE Method in the Satellite Attitude and Orbit Control System Design with Nonlinear Dynamics
Luiz Souza, Alessandro Romero