Marine Corps’ Nonnodal terminal / Air Force’s Nonnodal terminal / Echo I Satellite NASA Headquarters / One terminal / Medium Terminal / JRSC terminal / DSCS Standard Light terminal / Schriever AFB / /
IndustryTerm
operational communications / geostationary satellite / telephone circuits / Control segment computer algorithms / lite communications / digital communications / communications links / satellite communications / satellite constellation / satellite failure / communications capacity / satellite control / transatlantic telephone cable / operational space communications system / medium altitude satellite orbit / satellite communications system / Communication satellite systems / digital data services / passive communications systems / satellite capacity / magazine Wireless / operational military satellite communications system / communications payloads / above communication systems / maritime communications / satellite tracking / on-board satellite systems / Satellite systems / to all services / communications satellites / ground station technology / communications packages / sub-network / signal processing equipment / communications satellite research / active systems / active satellite programs / simultaneous telephone calls / artificial satellite / host satellite network / communications payload / commanding on-board satellite systems / /
MusicGroup
SHF / UHF / /
NaturalFeature
Transponders Channel / Indian Ocean / /
Organization
Navy SHF / Navy's Satellite Operations Center / GMF TACSAT / Defense Information Systems Agency / Global Command / Army / United States Marine Corps / Navy / U.S. Navy's NAVSOC / Air Intelligence Agency / AFSATCOM mission / Naval Space Command / African Union / National Command Authority / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Air Force / Department of Defense / United States Navy / Diplomatic Telecommunications Service / Global Broadcast Service / White House Communications Agency / /
Person
Bell LaboIn / Arthur C. Clarke / Leonard Jaffe / Moon Relay / Clarke Orbit / John R. Pierce / /
Position
DSCS Control Segment The Chairman / director of the communications program Fig / scientist and fiction writer / network manager / Satellite Operations Manager / Assistant Secretary of Defense for C3I / Chairman / /
Product
B-52 / B-1B / B-2 / /
ProvinceOrState
Maryland / New Mexico / Colorado / /
PublishedMedium
Wireless World / /
Region
Indian Ocean / /
Technology
space communications system / ground station technology / satellite communications system / microwave / Control segment computer algorithms / TDMA / SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS / /
Chapter 11 U.S. SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS Instantaneous worldwide communications, connecting all nations, has been a dream of mankind for ages. Until the development of technologies to build, launch and operate a