Hosted secondary payloads on commercial communications satellites: Looking at the whole problem

26th AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference, ICSSC

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Kalmanson, Phillip C ^a   Lam, Quang M ^a   Do, Michael ^a  

^a NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC SCIENCE; COMMERCIAL COMMUNICATION; COMMERCIAL ENTITY; COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE; COST SAVING; FREE MARKET; GOVERNMENT ENTITIES; INTEGRATION PROCESS; MISSION REQUIREMENTS; NON-RECURRING COSTS; PRESS RELEASE; PROFIT MARGIN; PROGRAM PHASIS; REVENUE GENERATION; SINGLE MISSION; SPACE ASSETS; SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP; TECHNICAL CHALLENGES; TECHNICAL IMPLICATIONS; TIME LINE;

COMMUNICATION; ECONOMICS; INTEGRATION; OPTIMIZATION; PROFITABILITY; PUBLIC RELATIONS; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACECRAFT;

COMMUNICATION SATELLITES;

EID: 77958501146     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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