ties to utilize these technologies in a wide array of user trials to demonstrate first hand how the technologies may provide a variety of new communications services not previously available (Gedney and Gargione, 1994, 48).
The value of ACTS is found in the detail of construction and in the advancement of the architectural concepts. Today, a technology is nearly obsolete by the time it reaches the market, but the concepts it produces will continue and encourage newer developments as soon as possible:
The ACTS system is not just an evolution in the field of satellite communications, but a revolution; it will spur a host of services not yet available and provide new ways to reach a larger number of users at a lower cost than possible with present technologies (Gedney and Gargione, 1994, 48).
Tests of this system will continue through 1997, and the data collected will fully characterize the design, the technological advantages and limitations, and the transmissions impairments at Ka band, to suggest how to improv
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