Publication Date:
2019-08-13
Description:
Skylab is an experimental manned space station which will be operated by three astronauts intermittently over eight months in 1973. It will be in a 235 nautical mile, 50 degree inclination orbit. The communication system includes an onboard audio distribution hard-line network with 13 stations; a teleprinter for recording messages from the ground; telemetry, voice and television links; an onboard video distribution network. The radio frequencies system also includes radiometer and scatterometer earth-scanning sensors operating at 13.9 GHz and 1.4 GHz. The overall Skylab Program is discussed briefly and the communications system is described in more detail.
Keywords:
COMMUNICATIONS
Type:
AIAA PAPER 72-543
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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Communications Satellite Systems Conference; Apr 24, 1972 - Apr 26, 1972; Washington, DC
Format:
text
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