International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 27-30, 1997 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / The Low Earth Orbit Terminal (LEO-T) developed by AlliedSignal for NASA Wallops is
a fully autonomous satellite tracking system which provides a reliable, high quality,
satellite data collection and dissemination service. The procurement was initiated by
NASA, in an effort to provide more tracking capacity with a decreasing budget. A large
mission set of NASA satellites in the next decade will not require the performance of
existing large aperture systems. NASA is planning to use the larger aperture antennas to
only support those missions needing the higher performance. The remainder of the
missions will be supported with the smaller LEO-Ts, which are smaller, significantly less
expensive, and fully automated. The procurement is also an attempt at a first step towards
fostering commercialization and privatization of small station acquisition and services. The
system design features a modular architecture to simplify integration and to support
affordable future expansion.
This paper begins with a brief summary of the LEO-T program, then provides the design
details and capabilities of the LEO-T system.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/607576 |
| Date | 10 1900 |
| Creators | Harrison, Keith, Blevins, William |
| Contributors | AlliedSignal Technical Services Corporation |
| Publisher | International Foundation for Telemetering |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text, Proceedings |
| Rights | Copyright © International Foundation for Telemetering |
| Relation | http://www.telemetry.org/ |
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