Does anyone know what has happened to satcommander.com and africangateways.com ?

I have tried emails to both and all emails fail from here.

News please to me eric@satsig.net

Best regards, Eric

Pasifik Satelit Nusantara (PSN) in association with Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (KOMINFO) have initiated work on a big new geostationary HTS satellite operating in Ka band to provide satellite internet services to the Indonesian area. At an orbit location of 146 deg east I expect it will have very many tiny spot beams.  It will provide services to Schools, Hospitals and Government offices as well as underserved remote areas. Capacity 150 Gbit/s.

Thales Alenia Space has been engaged as the prime contractor for the project. Two teleports will be constructed, main and backup and many Indonesian staff will be recruited and trained.

More details and large artists image here:

SATRIA press release by Thales Alenia Space

This announcement above follows a Long March 3B launch failure on 9th April 2020 attempting to launch Palapa N1 (cost $220,000,000 capacity 20×36MHz C-band FSS and 9.5Gbps Kaand HTS). That Palapa N1 satellite was intended to replace Palapa-D satellite at 113 East orbit position.

If you really wanted 100 Mbit/s duplex between just two sites in the same beam coverage I suggest using CDM750 modems with each site transmitting 100 Mbit/s and filling the 48 MHz. With both carriers on top of each other and each site knowing what it is transmitting the interference can by almost cancelled out.  It is called Doubletalk Carrier-in-Carrier.  You will need sufficiently large dishes at both ends.
Check with Comtech that what you propose is feasible.

REFERENCE http://www.comtechefdata.com/files/datasheets/ds-cdm750.pdf

A small VSAT network for internet access purposes, might comprise a teleport hub and 100 remotes. The hub would transmit a 4 Mbit/s carrier, which would be received by all sites, so each site could receive downloads at up to 4 Mbit/s for short periods. The outlink download carrier would be called TDM type and might use a DVB-S type frame structure. Blocks/packets of data would be addressed to particular VSAT sites using IP addresses.
The remote VSATs would only transmit occasionally and would use TDMA. The 100 sites might be grouped in two groups, so that 50 sites operate on one return link frequency and 50 sites on the other return link frequency. The hub would need two TDMA receivers. The burst bit rates of the return links might be 256 kbit/s.

It is hard to see how 100 VSAT site users could afford to pay for 48MHz of satellite bandwidth. Do you have such customers?

Single Channel per Carrier (SCPC) refers to operation of continuous low bit rate carriers, generally in point to point configurations.  The expression 'Single Channel' is somewhat historical since is refers to traffic comprising one analogue audio voice signal input.  Nowadays the 'traffic' over a 10 kbit/s or 64 kbit/s or 128 kbit/s carrier might be digitally encoded voice.

An SCPC carrier might operate 24/7 or might be set up on demand for just of a minute or two when a phone call is made.

Once the bit rate gets up higher the expression 'Time Division Multiplex' (TDM) becomes more applicable as the data stream begins to comprise a sequence of frame blocks or packets containing a variety of end user traffic, voice, data, video etc.

Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) is when several sites, transmit intermittently on the same frequency, thus sharing the same satellite bandwidth. See my description of how TDMA works.

Regarding your proposed network. Please explain more. Do you plan a hub as well as the 100 VSATs?  What traffic to and from the hub. What traffic to and from each VSAT site.  Star configuration or mesh configuration?. 

A total of 200 Mbit/s through a 48 MHz transponder sounds like a difficult challenge.

what is scpc and td/tdma system in earth station /vsat satellite system? considering ku band with 48 MHz space segment ,how can we design system of 100Mbps duplex with 100 vsat stations.

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26 Aug 2020:  The FCC has granted OneWeb‘s service access to the US market using 2,000 satellites with a V-band payload at a height of 8500km.

The 2000 satellites comprise: 720 Ku/Ka band satellites being upgraded with V band payload, plus 1280 additional satellites.

The launch and operation of these satellites will be at the discretion of the U.K. government, through which the application for orbit access is being processed.

Approval will be subject to review of OneWeb's plans for dealing with old end-of-life satellites so that space debris is mitigated.

For satellites in 1200km orbit, OneWeb intends to first lower the circular orbit to height of 1000km. (2 burns of deltaV approx 48m/s) plus a later transition to an orbit of 250 x 1000km (deltaV approx 199m/s), thus allowing for atmospheric drag at the lower end of the ellipse to gradually bring the satellites back into the atmosphere.

Recovering a satellite from 8500km down to 250km, needs more fuel, sufficient for deltaV approx 1113 m/s.

If anyone can calculate the deltaVs independently and confirm (or otherwise) my calculations I would be pleased to hear.

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