First year propagation experiment results from the New Mexico ACTS receiver terminal at 20.185 and 27.505 GHz

16th AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 937-947

  Feil, Julie ^a   Ippolito, Louis ^a   Buehrer, Mike ^a   Feldhake, Glenn ^a   Horan, Stephen ^b  

^a Stanford Telecom   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMMUNICATION SATELLITES; DESIGN; FORECASTING; NASA; SATELLITES;

ATTENUATION DISTRIBUTIONS; ATTENUATION RATIO; CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION; INDUSTRY STANDARDS; LONG TERM STATISTICS; RAIN ATTENUATION PREDICTIONS; RECEIVER TERMINAL; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 84977109035     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.1996-1094     Document Type: Conference Paper

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