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Global Mobile Satellite Systems - A Systems Overview makes mobile satellite communications understandable for communication engineers, candidates for an engineering degree, technicians, managers, and other decision makers such as financiers and regulators. It provides a systems oriented top-level view of mobile satellite communications. In particular, it focuses on Global Mobile Satellite Systems (GMSS) including active programs such as Globalstar, IRIDIUM, ORBCOMM, ACeS, and Thuraya, or so-called the second generation mobile satellite systems class. The authors start with a brief description of three generations of satellite systems in use or planned in the telecommunications industry. Selected systems architectural trades are identified and explained to illustrate how various GMSS systems are formulated, developed and evaluated. It includes an examination of market demand trends, business trades, regulatory issues as well as technical considerations.
Major issues are examined in trade study style to provide easy access to key information. Key systems drivers such as orbit trades between LEO's, MEO's, and GEO's, frequency, protocols, customer bases, and regulatory and engineering issues are included. This book should appeal to individuals interested in the basic elements of Global Mobile Satellite Systems.
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Book Title: Global Mobile Satellite Systems
Book Subtitle: A Systems Overview
Editors: Peter A. Swan, Carrie L. Devieux
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0329-3
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-7384-7Published: 28 February 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-5023-1Published: 31 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-0329-3Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 170
Topics: Electrical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, The Computing Profession