This is Volume 3 (Addendum) of the Ford Aerospace & Communications Corporation Final Report for the Communication Platform Payload Definition (CPPD) Study Program conducted for NASA Lewis Research Center under contract No. NAS3-24235. This report presents the results of the study effort leading to five potential platform payloads to service CONUS and WARC Region 2 traffic demand as projected to the year 2008. The report addresses establishing the data bases, developing service aggregation scenarios, selecting and developing 5 payload concepts, performing detailed definition of the 5 payloads, costing them, identifying critical technology, and finally comparing the payloads with each other and also with non-aggregated equivalent services.
Communication Platform Payload Definition (CPPD) Study. Volume 3. Addendum
1986
424 pages
Report
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English
Astronautics , Spacecraft Trajectories & Flight Mechanics , Manned Spacecraft , Unmanned Spacecraft , Geosynchronous orbits , Space shuttle payloads , Spacecraft communication , Synchronous platforms , Synchronous satellites , Telecommunication , Predictions , Costs , Data bases , Payload control , Payload transfer