Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS)

Author

Gedney, Richard T. ; Schertler, Ronald J.

Author_Institution

NASA Lewis Res. Center, Cleveland, OH, USA

fYear

1989

Firstpage

1566

Abstract

The authors provide an overview of the NASA Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS) and discuss the value of the technology for future communication systems. The high-risk technologies selected for ACTS were those having the potential to dramatically enhance the capabilities of the satellite communications industry. This experimental satellite, which is scheduled to be launched in 1992, will furnish very small aperture terminal digital networks which provide on-demand full mesh connectivity, 1.544 Mb/s services with only a single hop. Utilizing on-board switching and processing, each individual voice or data circuit can be separately routed to any location in the network

Keywords

artificial satellites; digital radio systems; satellite relay systems; 1.544 Mbit/s; ACTS; Advanced Communications Technology Satellite; NASA; VSAT; data circuit; on-board processing; on-board switching; on-demand full mesh connectivity; overview; satellite communications; very small aperture terminal digital networks; voice circuit; Apertures; Artificial satellites; Communication industry; Communication switching; Communications technology; Job shop scheduling; NASA; Satellite communication; Space technology; Switching circuits;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1989. ICC '89, BOSTONICC/89. Conference record. 'World Prosperity Through Communications', IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.1989.49942

Filename

49942