Ku band - The first year of operation
Abstract
The Space Shuttle Orbiter's Ku-band integrated radar and communications system furnishes the preferred link through the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TRDS), providing rendezvous radar function. During the first year of operations, communications through TRDS provided a channel for the 48 Mbps data from Spacelab. Attention is presently given to the most significant activities of the radar during its initial year.
- Publication:
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International Radar Conference
- Pub Date:
- 1985
- Bibcode:
- 1985inra.conf..330G
- Keywords:
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- Pulse Doppler Radar;
- Space Based Radar;
- Space Shuttle Orbiters;
- Spacecraft Communication;
- Superhigh Frequencies;
- Radar Antennas;
- Space Communication;
- Space Shuttle Mission 31-C;
- Space Shuttle Mission 31-D;
- Space Shuttle Mission 41-A;
- Space Shuttle Mission 41-B;
- Space Shuttle Mission 41-C;
- Tdr Satellites;
- Space Communications, Spacecraft Communications, Command and Tracking