Historical perspectives on commercial and non-military government space applications of microwave systems in the Baltimore/Washington area

The Baltimore/Washington area has made significant contributions to commercial and non-military government space applications of microwaves. These include especially (both for experimental/proof-of-concept and for operation), design of communications satellite systems, satellites, payloads and hardware, and satellites for remote sensing, their payload and some hardware, and radiowave propagation on the slant (Earth-satellite) path. Unique contributions include the ATS-6 satellite, the discovery and characterization of Gigahertz ionospheric scintillation, possibly the first electronically steerable phased array and the invention and implementation of the waveguide multimode filter.

[1]  Francois T. Assal,et al.  Transponder RF technologies using MMICs for communications satellites , 1992 .

[2]  R. S. Withers,et al.  High-T/sub c/ superconductive microwave filters , 1991 .

[3]  Joseph Corrigan.  ATS-6 Experiment Summary , 1975, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems.

[4]  Geoffrey Hyde.  ATS-6 Preliminary Results from the 13/18-GHz COMSAT Propagation Experiment , 1975, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems.

[5]  R. R. Bonetti,et al.  High-Power Multiplexers for DBS Earth Stations , 1985, 1985 15th European Microwave Conference.

[6]  L. Ippolito.  ATS-6 Millimeter Wave Propagation and Communications Experiments at 20 and 30 GHz , 1975, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems.

[7]  A. I. Zaghloul,et al.  A High-Efficiency Flat Plate Array for Direct Broadcast Satellite Applications , 1988, 1988 18th European Microwave Conference.

[8]  J. Allnutt.  INTELSAT propagation experiments: the focus and results of recent campaigns , 1993 .

[9]  J. Frank,et al.  A 256-element phased array development , 1970 .

[10]  William Redisch.  ATS-6 Description and Performance , 1975, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems.