A space-based public service platform for terrestrial rescue operations
Abstract
The space-based Public Service Platform (PSP) is a multibeam, high-gain communications relay satellite that can provide a variety of functions for a large number of people on earth equipped with extremely small, very low cost transievers. This paper describes the PSP concept, the rationale used to derive the concept, the criteria for selecting specific communication functions to be performed, and the advantages of performing such functions via satellite. The discussion focuses on the benefits of using a PSP for natural disaster warning; control of attendant rescue/assistance operations; and rescue of people in downed aircraft, aboard sinking ships, lost or injured on land.
- Publication:
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Prague International Astronautical Federation Congress
- Pub Date:
- September 1977
- Bibcode:
- 1977prag.iafcS....F
- Keywords:
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- Communication Satellites;
- Disasters;
- Rescue Operations;
- Synchronous Satellites;
- Cost Analysis;
- Frequency Assignment;
- Video Communication;
- Video Data;
- Voice Communication;
- Launch Vehicles and Space Vehicles