Now in its ninth year of operations, the Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS) program has continued, although since May 2000 in a new operations arrangement involving a university based consortium, the Ohio Consortium for Advanced Communications Technology (OCACT), While NASA has concluded its experimental intentions of ACTS, the spacecraft's ongoing viability has permitted its further operations to provide educational opportunities to engineering and communications students interested in satellite operations, as well as a Ka-band test bed for commercial interests in utilizing Kaband space communications. The consortium has reached its first year of operations. This generous opportunity by NASA has already resulted in unique educational opportunities for students in obtaining "hands-on" experience, such as, in satellite attitude control. An update is presented on the spacecraft and consortium operations.


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    Titel :

    ACTS of Education


    Beteiligte:
    Bauer, Robert (Autor:in) / Krawczyk, Richard (Autor:in) / Gargione, Frank (Autor:in) / Kruse, Hans (Autor:in) / Vrotsos, Pete (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    8th Ka-band Utilization Conference ; 2002 ; Baveno-Stresa, Italy


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2002-01-01


    Medientyp :

    Preprint


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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