Design concepts for multimedia satellite system

Our government’s whitepaper “China Spaceflight from 2006”pointed out that the large GEO multimedia satellites and broadband multimedia technology should be developed urgently. Satellites system can provide a high quality broadband communication services for subscribers especially in the internet access and disaster recovery. The development of satellite communication is reviewed; some design issues of Satellite system have been discussed. Based on the analysis and discussion a novel design concept for Multimedia Satellite System is proposed from internet point of view. A possible deign scheme has also been proposed which adopt the DVB-S2 and DVB-RCS from ETSI.