News Archive
The
Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS): A Switchboard
in the Sky (PDF)
NASA Facts, June 2001
An eight-page summary of ACTS accomplishments and achievements.
Also available in HTML
format, courtesy of the NASA Glenn Public Affairs Information
Series Fact
Sheet Index.
ACTS Final Curtain Call (PDF)
Aerospace Frontiers, July 2000
Far exceeding its planned 24-month mission, the Glenn-managed
Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS) concluded
its extensive experiments program on May 31, 2000.
For ACTS Experiments:
All Good Things Must Come to an End (PDF)
News Release, May 30, 2000
The ACTS Experiments Program achieved remarkable milestones
with 103 experiments and numerous demonstrations involving
over 200 diverse partners, paving the way for the next generation
of communications satellites.
International Satellite Communications
Conference to Highlight NASA ACTS Program (PDF)
Notes to Editors/News Directors, May 17, 2000
News release written to highlight the Sixth Annual International
Ka-band Utilization Conference with NASA Glenn Research Center.
The first day was dedicated to NASA's Advanced Communications
Technology.
Congressional
Record in Honor of ACTS (PDF)
Congressional Record, May 9, 2000
A Congressional Record written by Congressman Dennis Kucinich
to salute the Advanced Communications Technology Satellite
(ACTS).
ACTS Solar Array and Battery
Performance
July 7th, 1999
The challenge to all satellite manufacturers is to design
and build satellites that will reliably operate in the harsh
space environment for many years. This article reviews the
performance of the solar arrays and batteries used in the
ACTS power subsystem.
Satellite
Pioneers are Right Here Cleveland
Enterprise Magazine, September 1999
The increasing strength of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites
leveraged NASA Glenn Research Center to create an infrastructure
for an Internet-in-the-sky.
NASA
Test Aims to Speed Satellite Data Transfers
Space News, October 1999
How the 118X project was dispelling the myth that TCP/IP
would not work in the space environment?
Glenn
Demonstrates Internet-Based Remote Operations at Inspection
'99
November 1999
The next generation of NASA's space missions will need
to be more versatile and more cost effective to operate. Find
out why applications of Space Internet-based technologies
were demonstrated at Inspection '99.
Milestone NRL/NASA Experiment
Demonstrates Unprecedented Data Transmission Rates
October 1998
During a record-breaking demonstration of a Ka-band, two-way
satellite communications link, scientists from NRL, Glenn
Research Center, and their industry partners achieved an unparalleled
data rate transmission of 45 megabits per second (Mbps) between
a moving vessel at sea and a fixed Earth station. Previously,
the highest demonstrated ship-to-shore satellite data rate
was 2 Mbps.
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