RECOMMENDATION ITU-R S.728-1 - MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE LEVEL OF OFF-AXIS e.i.r.p. DENSITY FROM VERY SMALL APERTURE TERMINALS (VSA ANNEX 1 - Calculation of permissible off-axis e.i.r.p. density for VSATs 1 System noise budget 2 Derivation of system total thermal noise 3 Derivation of permissible off-axis e.i.r.p. density 4 Derivation of the required e.i.r.p. from VSATs 5 Numerical results for typical satellite systems ANNEX 2 - Ultra small aperture terminal antenna characteristics 1 Introduction 2 USAT antenna beam sizes