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Overview of Communications Satellite Technology and Operation

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The original idea of a communications satellite that could be deployed in geosynchronous orbit was a quite simple one. The concept was to create the equivalent of a very, very tall microwave relay tower in the sky. This virtual tower could connect voice, messages or data links across oceans or could be a broadcast station for radio and television with very broad coverage.

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    Gary D. Gordon and Walter Morgan, Principles of Communications Satellites, (1991), John Wiley and Sons, New York p128

  2. 2.

    Mark Williamson, The Communications Satellite, (1990) Adam-Hilger, London, U.K. pp. 354–355.

  3. 3.

    Op cit, Gary D. Gordon and Walter Morgan, p. 34.

  4. 4.

    Dennis S. Roddy, Satellite Communications, 3rd Edition (2001) McGraw Hill, New York. Pp. 307–335.

  5. 5.

    Ibid. pp. 173–177.

  6. 6.

    Op Cit, Mark Williamson, pp. 97–115.

  7. 7.

    Joseph N. Pelton, Satellite Communications 2001: The Transition to Mass Consumer Markets, Technologies, and Systems, (2001) International Engineering Consortium, pp. 237–239.

  8. 8.

    Op Cit, Dennis S. Roddy, pp 177–181.

  9. 9.

    The Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordinating Committee, http://www.iadc-online.org/inde/cgi

  10. 10.

    Stephan Hobe and Jan H. Mey, International Interdisciplinary Congress on Space Debris, May 2009, McGill Institute of Air and Space Law, Montreal, Canada.

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    International Interdisciplinary Congress on Space Debris, May 7–9, 2009 http://www.mcgill.ca/channels/events/item/?item_id=104375 also see David Kushner, “The Future of Space: Orbital Cleanup of Cluttered Space”, Popular Science, August 2010, pp. 60–64

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Pelton, J.N. (2012). Overview of Communications Satellite Technology and Operation. In: Satellite Communications. SpringerBriefs in Space Development. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1994-5_3

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