Objectives and development of synchronous-orbit telecommunications satellite providing over 240 two-way voice channels or two-way television transmission between United States and Europe 24 hr/day; Early Bird is spin-stabilized, with two hydrogen peroxide systems for attitude and velocity control, solar-cell panels for electrical power, apogee motor to accelerate it into nearly circular orbit, command and telemetry system, and microwave repeater; characteristics of communication system -- two 25 mc IF receivers; 240 duplex voice channels with two-carrier operation; redundant 6-w T WT (traveling-wave-tube) transmitters; antenna gain of 9 db in transmitting, 4 db in receiving.


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    Titel :

    Early bird


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Astronautics Aeronautics


    Beteiligte:
    Bentley, R.M. (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1965


    Format / Umfang :

    4 pages


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch


    Schlagwörter :


    Early bird communications system

    Owens, A.T. | Engineering Index Backfile | 1965


    "Early bird" communications satellite

    Engineering Index Backfile | 1965


    Early bird in hand

    Owen, K. | Engineering Index Backfile | 1965


    Early Bird I Communications Parameters

    Marsten, Richard B. | AIAA | 1966