AEROSAT AND MAROTS: TWO MOBILE COMMUNICATION SATELLITES

The Aerosat and Marots missions are described. Aerosat is an aeronautical satellite program permitting experimentation and evaluation of aircraft/ground communications, surveillances, and wideband techniques. Two geostationary satellites will be located over the Atlantic Ocean. Marots will be a maritime stationary communication satellite providing a wide range of experimentation between satellite and ship terminals. The two missions are compared.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Conf-Presented at the 11th Intern. Symp. on Space Technol. and Sci., Tokyo, 30 June-5 July 1975.
• Corporate Authors:

  European Space Research & Technology Center

  Noordwijk,   Netherlands 
• Authors:
  • Vandenkerckhove, J A
• Publication Date: 1975

Media Info

• Pagination: 7 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air transportation; Communication; Communications satellites; Marine terminals; Mobility; Navigational satellites; Satellite communication
• Old TRIS Terms: Aeros satellite; Aircraft communication; Ship terminals
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Marine Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00145821
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 16 1977 12:00AM