Ka Band The Future Of Satellite Communication

The k a band pronounced as either kay ay band or ka band is a portion of the microwave part of the electromagnetic spectrum defined as frequencies in the range 26 5 40 gigahertz ghz i e.

Ka band the future of satellite communication.

Occasionally also lower ka band the future of satellite communication. However initiatives are already underway to explore the feasibility of expansion into new bands namely q and v. The ku band of the electromagnetic spectrum has been in use for quite sometime while the capability of the ka band has only recently begun to be exploited. Space station s ka band data transmission testing offers faster communications to speed scientific discovery.

Early ka research started in the 1970 s followed by nasa acts in 1993. With the surge of current and future ka band capacity you would be forgiven for thinking that bandwidth would not be a pressing issue. Technical opportunities of ka band. The proposed ka band satcom transceiver is based on direct conversion.

This paper presents the first ka band satellite communication satcom transceiver in standard cmos technology. Use for satellite communication a green bar starting at around 20 mhz and ending at about 40 ghz. In 1990 s as part of a department of communications initiative to investigate ka band satellite communications in canada a small group of engineers and. 23 27 ghz a region that will be used increasingly by a variety of fixed link broadcast environmental and space operations satellites in the future as more bandwidth is required than can be provided in the lower bands.

Iee colloquium on future of ka band for satellite communications date of conference. These bands are normally used for digital tv transmission. Ka band represents the future of space communications nasa. Kazsat2 and kazsat3 why ka band.

Ku band satellites in kazakhstan. A bit of ka band history. Broadband satellite communications and networks fade mitigation techniques for broadband satellite systems in ka band. An alternate ku band bss uplink.

But which one of them is better suited for the future of satellite communication. However development of ka band satellites slowed and by 2003 there only a few in orbit. Wavelengths from slightly over one centimeter down to 7 5 millimeters. Available spectrum resources technical opportunities of ka band.

1993 date added to ieee xplore.