INTELSAT propagation experiments: the focus and results of recent campaigns

The work presented here aims at a detailed understanding of propagation impairments likely to be encountered on a given path, which is one of the factors needed in transmission link design to provide satellite service at the quality customers demand. The author discusses the background to INTELSAT's need for propagation information, describes the focus of recent INTELSAT Ku- and Ka-band measurements, and provides some of the results and conclusions of these measurements.<
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