Using commercial satellites to provide communication support for space missions

Author

Hadjitheodosiou, M.H. ; Nguyen, A.T.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Syst. Res., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

1135

Abstract

NASA is interested in using commercial satellites to provide broadband communications support for future space missions. we describe a large-scale simulation model that we plan to use for detailed performance studies of critical parameters. We focus on the unique challenges we face and how we plan to use simulations to investigate: the feasibility of using proposed commercial constellations to carry various classes of traffic between ground terminals and near-Earth spacecraft; and the performance optimization of such systems

Keywords

broadband networks; digital simulation; optimisation; satellite communication; space communication links; telecommunication traffic; International Space Station; NASA; broadband Internet services; broadband communications support; commercial satellite constellation; ground terminals; large-scale simulation model; near-Earth spacecraft; performance; performance optimization; simulations; space exploration; space missions; traffic classes; Artificial satellites; Broadband communication; Communication networks; Costs; NASA; Space missions; Space vehicles; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Web and internet services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 2000. GLOBECOM '00. IEEE

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6451-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2000.891314

Filename

891314