Spaceway Broadband Global Network
Hughes
Hughes
Commercial service
To be operational approx 2000.
Ka-Band HS-601 GEO satellite Initially nine satellites by 2000 and finally 17 satellites. Satellite lifetime 15 years. (500 MHz bandwidth per satellite.)
Frequency Cell Scanning. Each spotbeam is 125 MHz and covers 1 degree of earth surface, with 6-fold frequency re-use. (EIRP 59.01 dBW (peak).) On board switching is supported.
Base service is a scanning spotbeam downlink at 92 Mbps.
Standard terminals will be 26 inch VSATs with 1-2W SSPA able to receive at a high data rate, but normally transmitting at 16 kbps (voice/fax), also T1 for places were terrestrial infrastructure is lacking.
A higher rate terminal will provide multi-megabit uplinks.
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See also the competing system from Teledesic