Communication satellite systems technology : 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
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 SystemsExperience 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 TerminalsAdaptive 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 WheelA 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 1970Self-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
