NASA´s Advanced Communications Technology Satellite Program and its applications

Author

Vondeak, Thomas C.

Author_Institution

NASA Lewis Res. Center, Cleveland, OH, USA

fYear

1992

fDate

11-14 Oct 1992

Firstpage

567

Abstract

The Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS) Program is developing a variety of satellite communication technologies, and through its Experiments Program, promoting the applications that will use this technology. Examples of the developmental technologies include 30/20-GHz components, 110-Mb/s time-division multiple access, onboard digital signal regeneration and switching, and multibeam antennas. Various earth station developments, such as Jet Propulsion Laboratory´s Advanced Mobile Terminal, the Harris T1 Very Small Aperture Terminal, the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Ultra Small Aperture Terminal, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency High Data Rate Earth Station, that will access the unique capabilities of the ACTS, are underway. The author summarizes the technologies and the applications that will be demonstrated during the ACTS operational phase which began in April 1993

Keywords

SCADA systems; digital radio systems; military systems; mobile radio systems; satellite relay systems; 110 Mbit/s; 20 GHz; 30 GHz; ACTS Program; Advanced Communications Technology Satellite; Advanced Mobile Terminal; Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; Experiments Program; Harris T1 Very Small Aperture Terminal; High Data Rate Earth Station; Jet Propulsion Laboratory; SHF; Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition; Ultra Small Aperture Terminal; earth station; multibeam antennas; onboard digital signal regeneration; onboard switching; time-division multiple access; Apertures; Artificial satellites; Communications technology; NASA; Research and development; Satellite broadcasting; Satellite communication; Satellite ground stations; Space technology; Time division multiple access;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 1992. MILCOM '92, Conference Record. Communications - Fusing Command, Control and Intelligence., IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0585-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.1992.244015

Filename

244015