This conference volume contains the papers of the working conference 'Data Networks and Satellites', held on September 20th and 21st, 1982, in Cologne. The conference was performed by the interest group 'Computer Net- w 0 r k s " j us t founded by the co mm itt e e 3/4 of the G e sell s c h aft fUr Informatik (GI) and the committees 6, 9, and 12 of the Nachrichten- technische Gese11schaft (NTG). It was hosted by the Deutsche For- sChungs- und Versuchsansta1t fUr Luft- und Raumfahrt at Cologne. The idea of the conference was to bring together experts from satel- lite communication research and...