Applications of the Petite Amateur Navy Satellite (PANSAT)
dc.contributor.advisor | Wight, Randy Lee | |
dc.contributor.author | Payne, Robert Andrew, Jr. | |
dc.contributor.corporate | Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.) | |
dc.contributor.department | Space Studies Academic Group | |
dc.contributor.secondreader | Euler, Edward A. | |
dc.date | September 1992 | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-11-15T01:11:03Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-11-15T01:11:03Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1992-09 | |
dc.description.abstract | This thesis provides an analysis of potential Petite Amateur Navy Satellite (PANSAT) system users. At a point in time where large satellite designers are just now beginning to focus their efforts towards capturing a portion of the rapidly expanding light satellite (lightsat) market, the Naval Postgraduate School is designing a lightsat unlike any which has been built before or will be built in the foreseeable future. A single PANSAT (or an entire constellation) can be lofted into orbit at a relatively low cost as a secondary payload on a variety of launch vehicles. Its design makes it an ideal system for providing store and forward communications to a large number of users at a fraction of the cost of most (if not all other) satellite systems. The long-term success of this program relies not only on the technical aspects of design and production but also on the Naval Postgraduate School's ability to create a satellite system that provides maximum utility to potential user communities yet to be explicitly defined. | en_US |
dc.description.distributionstatement | Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. | |
dc.description.service | Captain, United States Army | en_US |
dc.description.uri | http://archive.org/details/applicationsofpe1094537410 | |
dc.format.extent | 91 p. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10945/37410 | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School | en_US |
dc.rights | This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States. | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Light satellite | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Lightsat | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Small satellite | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Smallsat | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Communications satellite | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Low earth orbiting | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Store and forward | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Spread spectrum | en_US |
dc.title | Applications of the Petite Amateur Navy Satellite (PANSAT) | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
etd.thesisdegree.discipline | Systems Technology (Space Systems Operations) | en_US |
etd.thesisdegree.grantor | Naval Postgraduate School | en_US |
etd.thesisdegree.level | Masters | en_US |
etd.thesisdegree.name | M.S. in Systems Technology (Space Systems Operations) | en_US |
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