Cost per billable minute Metric for comparing satellite systems

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 837-846

  Gumbert, Cary C ^a,b   Violet, Michael D ^a,b   Hastings, Daniel E ^a,b   Hollister, Walter M ^a,b   Lovell, Robert R ^a,b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METRIC SYSTEM; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

CAPACITY LIMITS; COST PER BILLABLE MINUTE METRIC; GATEWAYS; LINK AVAILABILITY; MULTIPLE ACCESS SCHEME;

SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031269307     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.3296     Document Type: Article

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