SATELLITE COMMUNICATION: CONCEPTS AND APPLICATIONS This new edition, an up-to-date and comprehensive title on the rapidly expanding field of satellite communication, is aimed at giving important aspects of space and satellite communication. It starts from fundamental concepts and helps reader to design satellite links. The book provides a smooth flow from satellite launch to various applications of satellite. It contains satellite systems, important parameter calculations and design concepts. The emphasis is on geostationary satellites. The text is organized in such a manner that the reader starts with orbiting parameters and ends at designing a complete multiple access links. With all of the latest information incorporated and several key pedagogical attributes included, this textbook is an invaluable learning tool for the engineering students of electronics and communication. New to This Edition • Important design equations have been listed separately. • Three new chapters—Reliability requirements in satellites, Remote sensing satellites and Error control coding—have been included. • New Sections are added in Chapters 1, 2 and 3. • A brief discussion on digitized video transmission is included in Chapter 4. |
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altitude amplitude analog applications axis bandwidth base station battery beam bits burst Calculate called carrier frequency CDMA cell cell site components convolution codes coverage decoder demodulator depends downlink earth station eclipse EIRP elevation angle equation error factor failure FDMA filter frame frequency bands geostationary orbit geostationary satellite Hamming distance handoff hence INMARSAT input INSAT INTELSAT interference launch loss mobile satellite mobile station modulation Momentum wheel MTBF multiple access multiplexed noise power noise ratio noise temperature operation output phase polarization power amplifiers PSTN quantization radiation radio receiver redundancy reflector reliability sample satellite communication satellite systems sensors shown in Figure signal to noise slant range solar space spacecraft spectrum subsystem switching symbols synchronization TDMA techniques telemetry traffic transmission transmitted transponder typical uplink velocity voice channels voltage VSAT