Flexible Communication System for Saturn

Introduction With the advent of large space vehicles such as SATURN, requirements for large quantities of measurements have resulted. Many of these measurements are low frequency and may be multiplexed into a single R-F carrier. This has created a need for a flexible multiplexing System which may handle up to 900 channels. Also, due to the size of large vehicles, routing large numbers of signal carrying leads to a centrally located multiplexer has become difficult, especially with low level data. To eliminate the above problems, a Flexible Commutation System was designed which had the following major characteristics.