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S Pal
Group Director
Communication Systems Group
ISRO Satellite Centre
Bangalore 560 017
INDIA
SEPTEMBER 1999
SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS
∗ The use of higher frequency bands will enlarge the available bandwidths
and thus the transmission capacity.
∗ Miniaturization of electronics
With the emergence of optical communications the majority of
the existing satellite communication services burden will be taken
over by the optical links and the tasks to be performed by future
satellites will be:
∗ Tasks for which it will only be essential to use the satellites to limited
basis (Transmission of Telephones and TV to inaccessible places or
thin traffic routes etc).
∗ Tasks for which it will remain advantageous to use satellites (New
services with different requirements with respect to BW, partner
stations, transmission times. This could include Data Collection
and Distribution over a large area, mobile radio services to
inaccessible areas, ship, aircrafts, Mobile communication/PCS).
FUTURE SATELLITES
∗ International
∗ Relay
Future technologies will enable the construction of an INFOSAT
network in which the above three will be connected to each other.
The onboard processors will ensure that the signals to be exchanged
between the satellites and the terrestrial subscribers are combined
using TD and SD multiplexing techniques and distributed in
accordance with the user requirements. Special coding techniques
will ensure the security of transmissions.
DESIGN OF INFOSAT
∗ The satellite platform will have multiple reconfigurable
antennas/transmitters with dynamic power sharing / Receivers in
various frequency ranges / large reconfigurable switching matrices
at baseband and at RF level / intersatellite links permitting signals
to be exchanged between satellites according to changing
requirements / complex and efficient analog / optical / digital signal
processors / New modulation technique and multiple access
techniques.