The role of British Aerospace in satellite TV broadcasting
Abstract
DBS spacecraft development (completed, underway, and planned) at British Aerospace is surveyed and illustrated with diagrams, graphs, drawings, maps, and tables. The satellites briefly characterized include OTS, ECS, Olympus, Eurostar, and Unisat. The growth in the number and power of DBS channels available is described, and the design concept of a 15-kW platform combining sun-pointing solar panels and outer structure with a slowly rotating earth-pointing inner antenna structure is presented.
- Publication:
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IN: Satellite Broadcasting; Congress on Electronics
- Pub Date:
- 1985
- Bibcode:
- 1985sbce.proc..271B
- Keywords:
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- Broadcasting;
- Communication Satellites;
- Satellite Design;
- Satellite Television;
- Direct Broadcast Satellites;
- Histories;
- Technological Forecasting;
- Technology Assessment;
- United Kingdom;
- Communications and Radar