This paper, from the characteristics of the mobile satellite ground track, discusses a method for the design of mobile satellite constellations with common ground track, and also uses the method on the China area design by way of computer simulation and a specialized satellite communication tool. By choosing the satellite orbit period as one fourth of the sidereal day, the eccentricity as 0.158, the orbital plane inclination as 63.4 degrees, only 8 common ground track (CGT) satellites can cover China almost seamlessly, while the average elevation angle is greater than 50 degrees.


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    Title :

    A new mobile satellite communication constellation for Chinese area


    Contributors:
    He Jiafu, (author) / Wu Jiuyin, (author) / Ma Yifei, (author)


    Publication date :

    2000-01-01


    Size :

    370366 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English