INTELSAT PROPAGATION EXPERIMENTS - THE FOCUS AND RESULTS OF RECENT CAMPAIGNS

A detailed understanding of propagation impairments likely to be encou ntered on a given path is one of the factors needed in transmission li nk design to provide satellite service at the quality customers demand . This paper sets the background to INTELSAT's need for propagation in formation, gives the focus of recent INTELSAT Ku- and Ka-band measurem ents, and provides some of the results and conclusions of these measur ements.