The Advanced Communications Technology Satellite: An Insider's Account of the Emergence of Interactive Broadband Technology in Space

by Richard T. Gedney

A candid insider's look at the creation of the most advanced digital communications satellite of its time that sparked a revolution in the field of communications and helped spawn Ka Band systems such as Spaceway, Astrolink, Euroskyway, and others. Although created in the early 1980's, the ACTS program correctly forecasted demand for interactive services well ahead of the rise of the Internet and used a market-based approach for defining the needed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1891121111
• ISBN13: 9781891121111
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: SciTech Publishing
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.3" x 10.3"