Design facets of communication-satellite systems with emphasis on differences between two approaches; operational requirements for two systems relative to communications capabilities, link frequencies, and antenna limitations; noise and ground station considerations; launch-vehicle selection; growth capabilities of commercial systems will come from ground-station improvements, error correction and message coding techniques, and from refined use of frequency and time sharing with other nations; military systems will grow in antijamming capability and in message security, by using data processing in satellite, direct signal processing, and commanded antenna switching.


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    Title :

    Military vs. Commercial comsat design


    Additional title:

    Astronautics Aeronautics


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    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1964


    Size :

    8 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


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