Flawed metrics: Satellite cost per transponder and cost per day

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 147-156

  Saleh, Joseph H ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DECISION MAKING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TRANSPONDERS; VALUE ENGINEERING;

METRICS; VALUE-CENTRIC MINDSET;

COMMUNICATION SATELLITES;

EID: 44649195052     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2008.4516995     Document Type: Article

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