Ground stations of arrays to increase the LEO download capacity

Proceedings of the 36th European Microwave Conference, EuMC 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 874-877

  Rondineau, Sébastien ^a   Dietlein, Charles ^a   Popović, Zoya ^a   Lee, Richard Q ^b   Miranda, Félix A ^b   Romanofsky, Robert R ^b   Ingram, Mary Ann ^c   Barott, William C ^c   Langley, John ^d   Mandl, Daniel ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d Saquish Group   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NASA; OPTIMIZATION; SATELLITES; TRANSMITTERS;

GROUND STATIONS; OPTIMIZATION QUADRUPLES;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 41649085782     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EUMC.2006.281059     Document Type: Conference Paper

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