Mobile Satellite Communications Handbook, 2nd Edition

Mobile Satellite Communications Handbook, Second Edition, serves to provide background for the earliest proposals to the most current advances in technology used for INMARSAT and NON-INMARSAT mobile-satellite communications.

• Revised edition will serve both technical and non-technical professionals who rely every day on mobile satellite communications
• Describes and explains historic, current, and planned civil, commercial, and military mobile satellite communication systems.
• 1st Edition charts and tables updated and expanded with current material for today’s mobile satellite technology

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction to Satellite Communications
Chapter 2 Overview of the Technology
Chapter 3 Early Proposals for Mobile Satellite Communications
Chapter 4 Marisat and Marecs: Pioneering Commercial Mobile Satellite Services
Chapter 5 Introduction to INMARSAT
Chapter 6 INMARSAT plc
Chapter 7 Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Mobile Satellite Communications Systems
Chapter 8 Non-Inmarsat Geostationary Mobile Satellite Communications Systems
Chapter 9 Other Important Mobile Satellite Communications Systems
Chapter 10 Military Mobile Satellite Communications Systems