Early Ekran satellites used orbital positions in the range from 48° East to 95° East, but recent Ekran, including the current Ekran 20, have been stationed at 99° East. These 3-axis stabilized satellites carry a single 24 MHz, 200 watts transponder, feeding a 28 dB gain antenna transmitting on right-hand circular polarization to produce in Siberia in the range 50 to 55 dBW at 714 MHz. The corresponding feeder link uses left-hand circular polarization at 6200 MHz. Therefore, almost every householder could receive the TV signal at home from Ekran's transponder using a simple Yagi–Uda antenna. There were also various kinds of collective or individual satellite receivers, such as Ekran-KR10 and Ekran-KR01. Latest version of receiver represents a simple individual TV set-top box itself. A modified version of Ekran was called Ekran-M. Ekran satellites have been replaced by improved geostationary craft for DBS, such as Gorizont, Gals, and Ekspress.
On 23 June 1978, the Ekran-2 spacecraft exploded due to a catastrophic discharge of its battery, contributing to the increase in space debris on the Geostationary orbit. On 1 February 2009, the last satellite from the Ekran series, Ekran-M at 99° East, stopped transmitting.
ekran, this, article, does, cite, sources, please, help, improve, this, article, adding, citations, reliable, sources, unsourced, material, challenged, removed, find, sources, news, newspapers, books, scholar, jstor, june, 2014, learn, when, remove, this, temp. This article does not cite any sources Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Ekran news newspapers books scholar JSTOR June 2014 Learn how and when to remove this template message For the Soviet animation studio see page Studio EkranEkran Russian Ekran meaning Screen was a Soviet Russian type of geostationary satellite developed for a national system of Direct To Home television The first satellite of Ekran series was launched on 26 October 1976 Each satellite in the Ekran series was designed to provide one TV and two radio program channels to cable TV systems throughout the USSR and to individual home receivers in northern Siberia Ekran s downlink is in the Ultra high frequency UHF range Early Ekran satellites used orbital positions in the range from 48 East to 95 East but recent Ekran including the current Ekran 20 have been stationed at 99 East These 3 axis stabilized satellites carry a single 24 MHz 200 watts transponder feeding a 28 dB gain antenna transmitting on right hand circular polarization to produce in Siberia in the range 50 to 55 dBW at 714 MHz The corresponding feeder link uses left hand circular polarization at 6200 MHz Therefore almost every householder could receive the TV signal at home from Ekran s transponder using a simple Yagi Uda antenna There were also various kinds of collective or individual satellite receivers such as Ekran KR10 and Ekran KR01 Latest version of receiver represents a simple individual TV set top box itself A modified version of Ekran was called Ekran M Ekran satellites have been replaced by improved geostationary craft for DBS such as Gorizont Gals and Ekspress On 23 June 1978 the Ekran 2 spacecraft exploded due to a catastrophic discharge of its battery contributing to the increase in space debris on the Geostationary orbit On 1 February 2009 the last satellite from the Ekran series Ekran M at 99 East stopped transmitting References Edit Spaceflight portalExternal links EditEkran satellite Ekran satellite a short history of development Ekran M Communication satellites Voices from Space in Russian Experiments of amateur Direct To Home reception of TV signal from Ekran satellite included some photo 1 Pacific Telecommunications Review This article about one or more spacecraft of the Soviet Union is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Ekran amp oldid 1147701610, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
