Hardware development for future commercial communications satellites
Abstract
This paper presents the development at COMSAT Laboratories of the critical components and subsystems needed for future multibeam communications satellite payloads with on-board processing. The components and subsystems currently under development will provide the required technology base for optimizing design configurations, specifying the satellite hardware, and monitoring satellite fabrication. This technology includes active multibeam antennas, microwave switch matrices (MSMs), quarternary phase-shift keyed (QPSK) modems, flexible bulk demux-demods, waveguide multimode cavity filters, baseband digital processors and/or switches, and the overall executive monitor and controller processor.
- Publication:
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12th AIAA International Communication Satellite Systems Conference
- Pub Date:
- 1988
- Bibcode:
- 1988icss.conf..332A
- Keywords:
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- Commercial Spacecraft;
- Communication Satellites;
- Hardware;
- Satellite Design;
- Technological Forecasting;
- Block Diagrams;
- Fabrication;
- Modems;
- Onboard Data Processing;
- Phase Shift Keying;
- Satellite Antennas;
- Space Commercialization;
- Transmitters;
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering