Title :
Communicating with scientific satellites in the TDRSS era
Author_Institution :
CTA Inc., Rockville, MD, USA
Abstract :
To accommodate the great variety of proposed transmission requirements and vast increases in data rates and data quantity, NASA is replacing the existing network of ground stations with a new space network and associated ground processing facilities. The author describes the major hardware and software components of the instrument communications systems and the data-flow processes for spacecraft instrument commands and downlink data transmission
Keywords :
satellite ground stations; telecommunications computing; NASA; TDRSS era; data quantity; data rates; data-flow processes; downlink data transmission; ground stations; hardware components; instrument communications systems; scientific satellites; software components; space network; spacecraft instrument commands; transmission requirements; Artificial satellites; Communication system software; Data communication; Downlink; Hardware; Instruments; NASA; Satellite ground stations; Space stations; Space vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
Computers and Communications, 1990. Conference Proceedings., Ninth Annual International Phoenix Conference on
Conference_Location :
Scottsdale, AZ
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2030-7
DOI :
10.1109/PCCC.1990.101617
