Home Television Satellite Could Span Continents
A report outlines a synchronous home television satellite with potential global reach. RCA and GE study a 6 000 to 8 000 pound craft in synchronous orbit with 800 me gacycles transmission, 18 kilowatts power from a large solar array, and a 40 foot dish antenna to cover up to half a million square miles. Costs top 40 million plus launch, with tube life and heat management key factors.
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General Electric
RCA
NASA
U. S
RCA _ engineers
Weight cuts possible in RCA satellite plan
RCA studies weight reductions to launch a satellite with a Titan 3D booster. Target weight 7308 pounds cuts antenna size to 50 feet and reduces transmitter power from 02 kilowatts. A two stage preamplifier might be used. designs include FM for half the Earth or a nationwide educational TV channel. The middle satellite is silver and the largest could reach 50 kilowatts.
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Communications Satellite Corporation
Comsat
Comsat Net
U. S
General Features Corp
RCA
Ie Spaceera
Ue Ieands
Coud
U.S
Eer
RCA Sis
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