The DAVID mission in the heritage of the SIRIO and ITALSAT satellites

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1371-1376+1393

  Bonifazi, Carlo ^c   Ruggieri, Marina ^a   Paraboni, Aldo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c ITALIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CAPACITY; EARTH (PLANET); SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SATELLITE LINKS; TECHNOLOGY;

INFRASTRUCTURE;

COMMUNICATION SATELLITES;

EID: 0036821504     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2002.1145759     Document Type: Review

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