Article: Study results from University of British Columbia update understanding of vehicular technology.

According to a study from Vancouver, Canada, "Because the motion of a low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite across the sky causes the Earth-space path to very quickly pass through any rain cells in the vicinity, the degree of rain fading on such paths changes more rapidly and leads to steeper fade slopes than in the geostationary case. Because comprehensive measurement data have not yet been compiled for fading on LEO links in the Ka-band, we have used simulations based on Goldhirsh's method for determining the key parameters of the well-known EXCELL model of a horizontal rain structure from long-term global rain statistics to obtain plausible estimates of the fade slope ...

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