Systems Engineering of a Terabit Elliptic Orbit Satellite and Phased Array Ground Station for IoT Connectivity and Consumer Internet Access

Systems engineering of a satellite based data communication baseline concept is presented to achieve terabit per second throughput. It uses a constellation of five Molniya satellites and one dimension electronic scanning phased array ground terminals. The result is a baseline concept that meets cust...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Rick L. Sturdivant, Edwin K. P. Chong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2016-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
Subjects:
GEO
LEO
Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7565492/