APPENDIX K DETAILS OF GROUND AND ORBITAL TEST PROGRAM K. 1 INTRODUCTION This appendix documents an activity undertaken to review the ground and orbital test programs as defined in separate tasks and to modify them as necessary to represent an integrated program. In addition, it is anticipated that this material will be useful in formulating future definitions of the programs as detailed studies and technology developments are matured. Insight into the test equipment requirements to meet the detailed objectives may be useful if the objectives which currently define the maximum size of the orbital test system are progressively relaxed. The resulting currently defined objectives for both the ground and orbital programs as modified are given in Sections 13 and 14. K. 2 OBJECTIVES IMPLEMENTATION EQUIPMENT AND CHARACTERISTICS Figure K- 1 summarizes the ground test objective implementation by program phase. Figure 14-1 summarizes the orbital program objectives and indicates the nature of the microwave payload required to implement them. It also indicates the sort of equipment that might be associated with the concurrent implementation of suggested intermediate benefit areas. Figure 14-2 illustrates the geosynchronous satellite and Figure 14-3 shows the functional block diagram to implement the associated currently defined mandatory and highly desirable objectives which require geosynchronous altitude test operations, namely: M3, M4, and H4. The approaches considered to implement the rest of the objectives from low earth orbit and from a ground based system warrant more detailed discussion.
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