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POWERFUL PAYLOADS - Technicians at Boeing Satellite Systems (BSS) assemble digital signal processing payloads such as the one aboard Thuraya, a BSS spacecraft that was launched in October 2000. Thuraya features the world's most powerful satellite digital communications processor. Built by BSS and IBM, the Thuraya digital communications processor incorporates variable-bandwidth channel capability, on-board circuit switching for more than 25,000 full duplex circuits, and agile transmit/receive digital beamforming for more than 300 projected cell sites.


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