An experiment in remote manufacturing using the advanced communications technology satellite

• Main Authors: Frost, Victor, Tsatsoulis, Costas
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1991
• Subjects: COMMUNICATIONS AND RADAR; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2060/19920024583

The goal of the completed project was to develop an experiment in remote manufacturing that would use the capabilities of the ACTS satellite. A set of possible experiments that could be performed using the Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS), and which would perform remote manufacturing using a laser cutter and an integrated circuit testing machine are described in detail. The proposed design is shown to be a feasible solution to the offered problem and it takes into consideration the constraints that were placed on the experiment. In addition, we have developed two more experiments that are included in this report: backup of rural telecommunication networks, and remote use of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data analysis for on-site collection of glacier scattering data in the Antarctic.