Jun 11 1985
From The Space Library
The Rome Air Development Center planned to award three contracts for work in support of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) proposal to develop a multiple satellite system (MSS) consisting of several hundred low-cost, low-orbiting communications satellites in several orbits, Defense Daily reported.
The satellites, expected to cost about $1 million each, would comprise a highly survivable, high-bandwidth global communications system through the combination of high bandwidth packet switches and burst radios with low-cost proliferated, low-orbiting satellites. Each satellite would carry a low-cost burst radio capable of instantaneous data rates on the order of 100 Mbps, along with digital controllers to do the packet switching and a suitable antenna system capable of both omni-directional and directive beams.
The contracts would be for study of burst radio development, low-cost antenna design, and low-cost satellite integration. (D/D, June 11/85, 229)
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