Physics – Optics
Scientific paper
Aug 1995
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995prex.meet...71h&link_type=abstract
In JPL, Proceedings of the 19th NASA Propagation Experimenters Meeting (NAPEX 19) and the 7th Advanced Communications Technology
Physics
Optics
Adaptive Optics, Atmospheric Attenuation, Data Correlation, Extremely High Frequencies, Japanese Spacecraft, Mobile Communication Systems, Rain, Satellite Communication, Ultrahigh Frequencies, Atmospheric Turbulence, Bandwidth, Cells, Cost Effectiveness, Japanese Space Program, Laser Beams, Laser Power Beaming, Low Earth Orbits, Scintillation, Transponders
Scientific paper
Mobile/Personal Satellite Communication Systems in L/S-bands are going into the operational phase. In the future, they will be operated in much higher frequency bands, for example in Ka-band, because the available bandwidth in L-band is limited. Systems with large on-board antennas in higher frequencies allow the same configuration as terrestrial cellular radio systems, since the on-board antennas will have many small spot beams. This may be true especially in a low earth orbit system such as Teledesic, which will use Ka-band. The most important parameter of Satellite Cellular may be cell size, that is, a diameter of the spot beam. A system designer needs the local correlation data in a cell and the size of the correlative area. On the other hand, the most significant difficulty of Ka and higher band systems is the countermeasure to rain attenuation. Many-cell systems can manage the limited power of on-board transponders by controlling output power of each beam depending on the rain attenuation of each cell. If the cell size is equal to the correlative area, the system can probably achieve the maximum performance. Propagation data of Ka and higher band obtained in the past shows a long term cumulative feature and link availability, but do not indicate the correlative area. The Japanese COMETS satellite, which will be launched in February 1997, has transponders in Ka and Q-band. The CRL is planning to measure the correlative area using 21 GHz and 44 GHz CW transmissions from the COMETS.
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