Communication satellite systems technology [electronic resource] : a collection of technical papers drawn mainly from the AIAA Communications Satellite Systems Conference, May 2-4, 1966, subsequently revised for this volume / edited by Richard B. Marsten.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

AIAA Communications Satellite Systems Conference, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Marsten, Richard Barry, 1925-

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Conference Name:

AIAA Communications Satellite Systems Conference (1st : 1966 : Washington, D.C.)

Series:

Progress in astronautics and aeronautics ; v. 19.

Progress in astronautics and aeronautics ; v. 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artificial satellites in telecommunication--Congresses.

Artificial satellites in telecommunication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1072 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Academic Press, 1966.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

""Cover ""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""The Communications Committee, 1965 and 1966""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Prologue: An Historical Prophecy""; ""Extra-Terrestrial Relays""; ""I. Commercial Point-to-Point Systems""; ""Early Bird Placement in a Stationary Orbit: Launch and Control System Maneuvers""; ""Early Bird I Communications Parameters""; ""Experimental Performance of the Early Bird Communication System""; ""Results of User Reaction Tests on Communication via Early Bird Satellite""; ""Subjective Evaluation of Telephone Communications via Early Bird Satellite and Cable Circuits""

""II. Military Satellite Communication Systems""""Experience of the Defense Communications Agency in Operating Pilot Satellite Communications""; ""Communications via Several Satellites Using the Lincoln Experimental Terminal""; ""Optimization of Network Configurations in a Hybrid Satellite and Ground Communication System""; ""Synchronization of a Jam-Resistant Mobile Small-Terminal Satellite Communications System""; ""Decentralized Control for an Advanced Communication Satellite System""; ""Fading and Multipath Considerations in Aircraft/Satellite Communications Systems""

""A Multiple-Access World-Wide Satellite Communication System for Aircraft Terminals""""Adaptive Digital Satellite Transmission Ground Terminal Design Considerations""; ""An Adaptive Twelve-Channel Multiplexer""; ""Cost Effectiveness Comparison of Defense Communications Satellite Systems""; ""III. Satellite Support Subsystems and Components""; ""Launch Vehicles as Support Subsystems for Communications Satellites""; ""Synchronous Satellite Station-Keeping""; ""Gravity Gradient Stabilization of Communication Satellite Systems""

""Stabilite � A Three-Axis Attitude Control System Utilizing a Single Reaction Wheel""""A Wide-Band Solid-State I. F. Repeater for Communications Satellites""; ""Advances in Traveling-Wave Tubes for Spacecraft Communications Systems""; ""An Electronically Despun Switched Antenna""; ""Ground-Based Antennas for Satellite Communications""; ""Gain Limits of Electronically Despun Antennas for Communication Satellites""; ""IV. High-Power Systems""; ""Nuclear Power Systems for Advanced High-Powered Communications Satellites""; ""High-Powered Traveling-Wave Tubes for Space Transmitters""

""A Direct-to-Home TV Satellite System for 1970""""Self-Steering Arrays for Satellite Applications""; ""Earth Stations for Reception of Television Signals from a Stationary Satellite""; ""Required and Attainable Interference Ratios in Space Telecasting""; ""V. Systems Concepts: Present and Future""; ""Parametric Tradeoff Analysis for Comsat System Design""; ""Multiple-Access Modulation Techniques""; ""A Communication Satellite System for Many Users""; ""Use of Frequency-Time Coded Pulsed Signals in Satellite Communications Systems""; ""TV Network Satellite Systems""

""Establishment and Maintenance of a Communication Satellite System""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-60086-493-7

1-60086-274-8

OCLC:

922979049