Start Date
4-1982 8:00 AM
Description
Commercial communications satellites have grown from infancy seventeen years ago to a major element of the spaceflight program. The paper describes the major commercial communications satellites and their development with emphasis on INTELSAT, United States and foreign domestic and MARISAT/INMARSAT. Future direct broadcast satellites and the possibilities for geostationary platforms are also discussed. These commercial communications satellites and their offsprings will constitute a stable, growing payload base for shuttle launches throughout this decade. It will be necessary that the costs of Shuttle launches remain economic so this payload base is not eroded by other launch vehicles.
Future Commercial Communications Satellites for Shuttle Launch
Commercial communications satellites have grown from infancy seventeen years ago to a major element of the spaceflight program. The paper describes the major commercial communications satellites and their development with emphasis on INTELSAT, United States and foreign domestic and MARISAT/INMARSAT. Future direct broadcast satellites and the possibilities for geostationary platforms are also discussed. These commercial communications satellites and their offsprings will constitute a stable, growing payload base for shuttle launches throughout this decade. It will be necessary that the costs of Shuttle launches remain economic so this payload base is not eroded by other launch vehicles.
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