Uwe:
Last I looked 1.5 degrees between spacecraft (as seen from the ground) was
the minimum required to avoid interference.
That’s a maximum of 240 spacecraft per band.
Bill
On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 3:10 PM Uwe Klein <uwe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Am 08.02.2018 um 21:36 schrieb Paul Mueller:
I was imagining comsat builders salivating over how many transponders
they could fit on a Battlestar Galactica geostationary satellite,
you can do endless numbers of downbeams.
But you can not easily do more than the available bandwidth slots as
uplink. How narrow can you do the receiving uplink antenna beam for good
geograhical separation?
Uwe