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Thuraya Telecommunications Company is a world-leading mobile satellite service provider of voice, data, maritime, rural telephony, fleet management and other telecommunication solutions in remote areas.

Network architecture
Spacecraft architecture allows dynamic response to traffic requirements to avoid congestion in hot spot areas. 20% of power can be allocated into a single spot beam.

Spacecraft Architecture

* Designed to operate for a minimum of 12 years up to 17 years.
* Has the capability to dynamically distribute the RF power uniformly and nonuniformly over the coverage area to cope with the traffic demand.

Onboard DSP is capable of:

* providing up to 25,120 simultaneous equivalent voice channels Spacecraft Architecture Thuraya Satellite Page 4 Thuraya Telecommunications Company
* processing 640 subbands (156.25KHZ), each contains 5 FDM carriers with spacing of 31.25kHZ
* reconfiguring the number of beams, beam sizes and beam location in orbit
* dynamically assigning different subbands with different power level to different beams to cope with the traffic demand
* forming more than 500 beams in orbit at any time during the satellite life
* reconfiguring the beam size and location in orbit
* reusing the spectrum more than 30 times over the entire coverage area
* connecting two Thuraya users in a single hop call

Frequencies:

Mobile Links
Earth-to-space: 1626.5-1660.5 MHz
Space-to-Earth: 1525.0-1559.0 MHz
Feeder Links
Earth-to-space: 6425.0-6725.0 MHz
Space-to-Earth: 3400.0-3625.0 MHz

Thuraya Country Code: +88216