The final analysis Little Leo: A system and service overview

Abstract

There is an emerging commercial space industry consisting of constellations of low earth orbiting satellites to that will provide global telecommunications services. Within the set of proposed low earth orbiting satellite systems, there exists two distinct classes. One class provides high bandwidth digital voice and data services, and the other provides narrowband store and forward digital data services. The digital data service systems are called Little LEOs or Infosats. These systems will provide a variety of personal, business, environmental, and industrial digital data services on a global scale. Infosat systems provide a niche telecommunications infrastructure that benefit industries and governments of the world whether developing or industrialized; geographically homogeneous or diverse; or low, middle, or high income. The flexible nature of the service allows it to be applied in many ways to meet changing needs. This paper provides an overview of the Final Analysis Infosat system.