3rd edition. — John Wiley & Sons. Inc., and ITU, 2002. — 1100 p.This Handbook gives a comprehensive description of all issues relative to satellite communication systems operating in the fixed-satellite service (FSS).
This Edition 3 of the "Handbook on Satellite Communications (FSS)" is a completely revised and updated version of Edition 2 (Geneva, 1988). While, hopefully, keeping the tutorial and didactic character of the previous edition, it takes into account the evolution of techniques and technologies, in particular as concerns the current preeminence of digital communications (including the last developments on B-ISDN, SDH, ATM, etc.) and the advent of the new systems based on non-geostationary Orbit (non-GSO) satellites. In this viewpoint, most texts of Edition 2 have been completely rewritten.
The Handbook is divided in Chapters, Appendices and Annexes. Appendices are included at the end of the chapters for giving more development on specialized subjects. The Annexes, at the end of the book cover subjects of general interest.
The Handbook is a self-standing document. However, for more details on such a specialized subject as the small earth stations and systems, known as Very Small Aperture Terminals ("VSATs"), the reader is referred to Supplement 3 to Edition 2 ("VSAT systems and earth stations", Geneva 1995).
