Staged deployment of communications satellite constellations in low earth orbit

Journal of Aerospace Computing, Information and Communication

Volumn , Issue MAR., 2004, Pages 119-136

  De Weck, Olivier ^a,b   De Neufville, Richard ^a,b   Chaize, Mathieu ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BANDWIDTH; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); EARTH (PLANET); INTERNET; LIFE CYCLE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; ORBITS;

GLOBAL SYSTEM UTILIZATION; INTER SATELLITE LINKS; LOW EARTH ORBIT (LEO); SATELLITE CONSTELLATION;

COMMUNICATION SATELLITES;

EID: 18444414869     PISSN: 15429423     EISSN: 15429423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.6346     Document Type: Article

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