HIGH THROUGHPUT SATELLITES (HTS)

About:

• Significance: HTS has the potential to transform the role of satellite communications in both commercial and government networksA high throughput satellite (HTS) is a satellite that has many times the throughput of a traditional Fixed-satellite service (FSS) using the same amount of allocated frequency on orbit.
  
  
• Underlying principle: These satellites accomplish this by taking advantage of frequency reuse and spot beams. By doing so, they reduce the cost per bit delivered, regardless of spectrum choice.