Satellite Communication
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Satellite Communication Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Satellite Communication (subject code 3161010) as prescribed for Electronics · Semester 6 divides the course into 5 units, covering 25 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3161010)Unit 1 Introduction to Satellite Communication
- Principles and architecture of satellite communication
- Brief history of satellite systems
- applications and frequency bands used for satellite communication
Unit 2 Orbital Mechanics
- Orbital equations
- Kepler’s laws
- Apogee and Perigee for an elliptical orbit
- evaluation of velocity
- orbital period
- angular velocity etc. of a satellite
- concepts of Solar day and Sidereal day
Unit 3 Satellite sub-systems
- Study of architecture and roles of various sub-systems of a satellite system such as Telemetry
- command and monitoring (TTC&M)
- Attitude and orbit control system (AOCS)
- Communication sub-system
- power sub-system etc
Unit 4 Typical Phenomena in Satellite Communication
- Solar Eclipse on satellite
- its effects
- remedies for eclipse
- sun transit outage phenomena
- its effects and remedies
- Doppler frequency shift phenomena and expression for Doppler shift
Unit 5 Satellite link budget
- Flux density and received signal power equations
- Calculation of system noise temperature for satellite receiver
- noise power calculation
- Drafting of satellite link budget and C/N ratio calculations in clean air and rainy conditions. 10 Subject Code: 3161010 w.e.f