Ekran

Ekran ( Экран, Russian for screen ) was a type of Soviet geostationary satellite that was developed for a national satellite television system. This was the world's first satellite television for private households.

Ekran on a Soviet postage stamp from 1981

history

The first satellite of this type was launched in 1976. The transmitter on board at Ekran had enough energy (200 W ) to supply every Siberian household with a TV signal. Ekran used a simple Yagi-Uda antenna for transmission . A modified version of Ekran was called Ekran-M.

In total, the Russian space agency launched around 30 Ekran satellites by 2001. The Ekran satellites have been replaced by improved geostationary DBS satellites such as Gorisont , Gals and Express .

Web links

Ekran in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
Ekran (11F647) on Gunter's Space Page (English)
Ekran in the Encyclopedia of Science (English)
Ekran-M ( Memento of August 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Federation of American Scientists

Individual evidence

↑ Malcolm Macdonald, Viorel Badescu: The International Handbook of Space Technology . Springer 2014, p. 5.

[1] Malcolm Macdonald, Viorel Badescu: The International Handbook of Space Technology . Springer 2014, p. 5.