implications of the Teledesic system to the satellite community
global standard and gigalink services on demand
- small terminals, simple interface
low cost space components and subsystems
- 10 million watts of solar cells
- 3000 space computers
- 20/30 GHz electronically steered antennas, GaAs receivers and transmitters
- 8000 intersatellite coms packages
low cost launches
- 1 million kilograms to low earth orbit
technology and software for automated constellation operations