EC-603 (C) · Satellite Communication/Official Syllabus
Satellite Communication (EC-603 (C)) - Official Syllabus
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Unit 1
Overview of satellite systems
- Overview of satellite systems: Introduction, Frequency allocations for satellite systems
- Kepler's three laws of planetary motion
- terms used for earth orbiting satellites, orbital elements, apogee and perigee heights
- orbit perturbations, inclined orbits
- local mean solar point and sun-synchronous orbits, standard time
2
Unit 2
The Geostationary orbit
- The Geostationary orbit: Introduction, antenna look angles, polar mount antenna, limits of visibility, near geostationary orbits
- earth eclipse of satellite, sun transit outage, launching orbits
- Polarization: antenna polarization, polarization of satellite signals, cross polarization discrimination
- Depolarization: ionospheric, rain, ice
3
Unit 3
The Space segment
- The Space segment: introduction, power supply, attitude control, station keeping, thermal control, TT&C subsystem, transponders, antenna subsystem
- Morelos and Satmex 5, Anik-satellites, Advanced Tiros-N spacecraft
- The Earth segment: introduction, receive-only home TV systems, master antenna TV system, Community antenna TV system, transmit-receive earth station
4
Unit 4
The space link
- Introduction, Equivalent isotropic radiated power (EIPR), transmission losses, the link power budget equation
- system noise, carrier-to-noise ratio (C/N)
- the uplink, the downlink, effects of rain, combined uplink and downlink C/N ratio
- inter modulation noise, inter-satellite links. Interference between satellite circuits
5
Unit 5
Satellite services
- VSAT (very small aperture terminal) systems: overview, network architecture, access control protocols, basic techniques, VSAT earth station, calculation of link margins for a VSAT star network
- Direct broadcast satellite (DBS) Television and radio: digital DBS TV, BDS TV system design and link budget
- error control in digital DBS-TV, installation of DBS-TV antennas, satellite radio broadcasting
Reference Books
- Satellite Communications — Roddy — TMH
- Satellite Communications — Timothy Pratt — Wiley India
- Satellite Communication Systems Engineering — Pritchard, Suyderhoud, Nelson — Pearson Education
- Satellite Communications — Agarwal — Khanna Publishers
- Satellite Communications — Gangliardi — CBS Publishers
- Satellite Communication — Chartrand — Cengage Learning
- Fundamentals of Satellite communications — Raja Rao — PHI Learning
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