Recent development and its prospect of satellite communications

Abstract

After analyzing the characteristics of satellite communications,the developing status of communication satellite platform,available frequency resource,as well as the related key techniques are summarized.Through introducing some typical satellite communications systems,were presented the applications and industrialization of satellite communications,and furthermore shows the bright prospects.

Keywords

• satellite communications
• mobile satellite communications
• onboard processing
• onboard switching
• multi-beam antenna
• cellular satellite system