NASA policy toward commercial space ventures is summarized and illustrated with a proposed system for mobile communications through satellite links (MSAT). The government's, i.e., NASA's, role in commercial space ventures is to provide funding and expertise to high risk projects with prospective large returns, provided no vital public services are displaced. MSAT would be realized with a relay spacecraft in GEO, linking mobile radios costing in the range $500-2500. The experimental ATS-6 satellite would be the first generation relay. It is estimated that by the 1990s a spacecraft with a 20-55 m antenna could provide transmission relays for between 640,000 to about 2.5 million nonurban communications units.
Commercial space policy - Theory and practice
1986-01-01
Miscellaneous
No indication
English
US commercial space policy guidelines
Elsevier | 1991
Commercial Devices Policy for Space Applications
British Library Online Contents | 1997
|Commercial Devices Policy for Space Applications
British Library Conference Proceedings | 1997
|Commercial Sampling Practice - for Space Industry Application
British Library Online Contents | 1997
|Commercial Sampling Practice - for Space Industry Application
British Library Conference Proceedings | 1997
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