Communications performance specifications of the INTELSAT V-A
Abstract
The design and performance characteristics of INTELSAT V-A are presented, insofar as they differ from those of INTELSAT-V. INTELSAT-V-A is planned as an active repeater body-stabilized communications satellite in geosynchronous orbit, to be launched by Ariane 2 or Atlas-Centaur and operate in the 6/4 and 14/11-GHz bands. It will be made fully compatible for TDMA operation by changing the saturation flux density and gain step of the necessary channels. The global, hemispheric, zonal, and spot coverage of the satellite is characterized, and the transponder channelization and switching capability are specified.
- Publication:
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COMSAT Technical Review
- Pub Date:
- May 1983
- Bibcode:
- 1983COMTR..13..181M
- Keywords:
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- Channels (Data Transmission);
- Intelsat Satellites;
- Satellite Design;
- Time Division Multiple Access;
- Transponders;
- Data Links;
- Flux Density;
- Satellite Networks;
- Steerable Antennas;
- Communications and Radar