Summary of the SBS satellite communications performance specifications
Abstract
It is noted that the specifications for the spacecraft to be used with the Satellite Business Systems all-digital system resulted from a trade-off between timely delivery and communications capability and were derived after a number of iterations. Attention is given here to the significant parameters of the communications payload, in particular, those governing the transponder and antenna. Other spacecraft features affecting communications performance are described in general.
- Publication:
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COMSAT Technical Review
- Pub Date:
- November 1981
- Bibcode:
- 1981COMTR..11..421C
- Keywords:
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- Communication Satellites;
- Digital Systems;
- Domestic Satellite Communications Systems;
- Frequency Division Multiplexing;
- Multichannel Communication;
- Transmission Efficiency;
- Frequency Response;
- Microwave Antennas;
- Systems Engineering;
- Time Lag;
- Tradeoffs;
- Transponders;
- Communications and Radar