Design Aspects of WINDS Ground Facility for Malaysia

The paper demonstrates the design aspects of Malaysian ground facility proposed to be established for the beam allocated at N3.14 latitude and E101.68 longitude in Ka-band by using WINDS (wideband internetworking engineering test and demonstration satellite), which is currently under joint development, by JAXA and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan. The purpose of the proposed ground facility is to test validity and usefulness of Ka-band technologies related to large-capacity data communications to promote the use of satellites in Malaysia for multimedia applications in such fields as Internet communications, tele-education, tele-medicine, tele-networking, tele-working, disaster measures and intelligent transport systems (ITS) on non-commercial basis.