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SSMA [3 records]

Record 1 2024-02-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telecommunications Transmission
  • Internet and Telematics
OBS

spread spectrum transmission: Communications technique in which many different signal waveforms are transmitted in a wide band; power is spread thinly over the band so narrow-band radios can operate within the wide-band without interference; used to achieve security and privacy, prevent jamming, and utilize signals buried in noise.

OBS

Spread Spectrum Systems. ... The technique is adopted for the following (advantage:) code-division multiplexing in satellite multiple-access data communications ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transmission (Télécommunications)
  • Internet et télématique

Spanish

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Record 2 2007-04-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Spacecraft
OBS

microaccelerometer: Microelectromechanical systems or MEMS is the name given ... to the practice of making and combining miniaturised mechanical and electronic components. ... The use of MEMS devices is already a reality, microaccelerometers, bioreactors based on micropumps and microvalves, and micro-positioners have been used on Olympus, Shuttle, and Artemis ...

Key term(s)
  • solid state microaccelerometer

French

Domaine(s)
  • Engins spatiaux

Spanish

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Record 3 2002-11-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telecommunications Transmission
  • Satellite Telecommunications
OBS

In spread spectrum multiple access (SSMA) each station of a system uses the total available band width during its actual transmission time.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transmission (Télécommunications)
  • Télécommunications par satellite
OBS

Selon la méthode d'accès multiple à spectre étalé (AMSE), chaque station d'un système à satellites utilise toute la largeur de bande disponible pendant la durée effective de ses émissions.

Spanish

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