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Solar Power Satellite (SPS) Pilot Beam & Communication Link Subsystem Investigation Study - Phase I, Final Report, ER79-4032, 31 January 1979; NASA-CR-161161, N79-17896; contract NAS8-33157 (as printed on PDF 1)

Raytheon Company, Equipment Division, Advanced Development Laboratory, Wayland, Massachusetts, for NASA Marshall Space Flight Center ·1979 · T3 government or agency report · VC05 VC06

Commissioned by NASA MSFC (contractor report). Who paid for a study is recorded because it bears on how its conclusions should be read, not because it makes them wrong.

ER79-4032; NASA-CR-161161 the identifier this document is registered under

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CLM-1193 A 1979 study for NASA drew the pilot transmitter's beam about three-quarters of a degree wide, a few hundred kilometres across by the time it reaches the satellites, and argued that with 100 satellites spread along a sixth of the orbit only one would sit in each pilot beam; the others would see a site's pilot only through its much weaker side lobes.

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