Future trends and expected technological evolution - Effective development for long time development
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Future trends and expected technological evolution - Effective development for long time development
One of the barriers that the satellite communications
system must cope is how to provide the
services at the optimal time. For the world first
type of service system, it is important that the
satellite communication service is started as
soon as possible. However, generally speaking,
it takes a long time to develop a satellite communications
system, especially a satellite to develop
new technologies with R&D. Since many
new technologies need to be developed for the
future large-capacity satellite, the length of development
time tends to become longer.
For the R&D satellite case, it takes 10-15 years
to be developed. The cause of taking such a long
time depends on various factors. The major factors
are enumerated in Table 1. Most of cause of
long development time looks to be in the mission definition procedure. This procedure includes
many elements from political issue to
likelihood of the new and/or key technology
development.
The development of the key technology could be accelerated by using small satellite which can be. launched every 1-3 years, because of its small project cost. The small satellite will be useful for a test-bed for space proof, space infrastmcture such as formation flight, rniniaturixation test of equipment, etc. Such an often chance of testbed would promote development of key technologies. The accumulation of the advanced technologies would accelerate the development of the future communication satellite. [1]
References
[1] T.Iida
"Cost consideration for future communications satellite".
