Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS) four-year system performance.

The Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS) was conceived at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the late 1970s as a follow-on program to ATS and CTS to continue NASA's long history of satellite communications projects. The ACTS project set the stage for the...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:	IEEE Journal on selected areas in communications 17, 2 (1999).
Main Author:	Acosta, R.J
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	20 GHz. 30 GHz. 900 MHz. 900 MHz transponders. ACTS. Advanced Communications Technology Satellite. C-band satellites. Ka-band. Ku-band. Adaptive rain fade compensation. Digital communications techniques. Direct-to-home broadcasting. Fast hopping multibeam antenna. On-board baseband processor. Propagation. Satellite system architecture. Video distribution. Wide-band microwave switch matrix.