Title :
The ROSTELESAT multifunctional space telecommunication system (MSTS)
Author :
Klepikov, Lgor A. ; Kukk, Kalyu I.
Author_Institution :
ROSTELESAT, Moscow, Russia
Abstract :
The ROSTELESAT multifunctional space telecommunication system (MSTS) is designed for establishing mobile and fixed satellite communication channels for digital information reception and transmission between the mobile and fixed users to provide public community, government and commercial organizations with services in global digital voice communication and data transmission in any geographical area of the world, including poorly populated, remote and hardly reached regions of Russia. Telephony, facsimile messages and data transmission are provided with rates from 1.2 up to 64 Kbit/s, along with the latest multimedia and computer services, including communication between computer networks of various levels. Similar information transmission could be done with up to 2048 Kbit/s standard rates; data in Earth remote sounding (investigation of natural resources, supervision over dynamic processes on the Earth surface and in the atmosphere etc.) with actual real-time data acquisition and processing
Keywords :
data communication; digital communication; facsimile; mobile satellite communication; multimedia communication; telephony; voice communication; Earth remote sounding; ROSTELESAT; Russia; computer networks; data acquisition; data transmission; digital information; digital voice communication; facsimile messages; fixed satellite communication channels; mobile satellite communication; multifunctional space telecommunication system; multimedia services; telephony; Atmosphere; Computer networks; Data acquisition; Data communication; Earth; Facsimile; Government; Mobile communication; Satellite communication; Telephony;
Conference_Titel :
Satellite Communications, 1998. ICSC '98. The Third International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Moscow
Print_ISBN :
5-93184-002-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICSC.1998.741352
