Satellite Communication
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Satellite Communication Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Satellite Communication (subject code 2171007) as prescribed for ETC · Semester 7 divides the course into 9 units, covering 67 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 (2171007)Unit 1 Introduction to Satellite Communication
- Historical background
- Basic concepts of Satellite Communications
- Communication Networks and Services
- Comparison of Network Transmission technologies
- Orbital and Spacecraft problems
- Growth of Satellite communications
Unit 2 Orbits and Launching Methods
- Kepler’s First Law, Kepler’s Second Law, Kepler’s Third Law, Definitions of Terms for Earth-Orbiting Satellites
- Orbital Elements
- Apogee and Perigee Heights
- Orbit Per turbations
- Effects of a non spherical earth
- Atmospheric drag
Unit 3 The Geostationary Orbit
- Antenna Look Angles
- The Polar Mount Antenna
- Limits of Visibility
- Near Geostationary Orbits
- Earth Eclipse of Satellite
- Sun Transit Outage
- Launching Orbits
Unit 4 Radio Wave Propagation
- Atmospheric Losses
- Ionospheric Effects
- Rain Attenuation
- Other Propagation Impairments
Unit 5 Polarization
- Antenna Polarization
- Polarization of Satellite Signals
- Cross Polarization
- Ionospheric Depolarizaon
- Rain Depolarization
- Ice Depolarization
Unit 6 The Space Segment
- The Power Supply
- Attitude Control
- Spinning satellite stabilization
- Momentum wheel stabilization
- Station Keeping
- Thermal Control
- TT&C Subsystem
- The wideband receiver
- The input demultiplexer
- The power amplifier
- The Antenna Subsystem
Unit 7 The Earth Segment
- Receive-Only Home TV Systems
- The outdoor unit
- The indoor unit for analog (FM) TV, Master Antenna TV System
- Community Antenna TV System
- Transmit-Receive Earth Stations
Unit 8 The Space Link
- Equivalent Isotropic Radiated Power
- Transmission Losses
- Free-space transmission
- Feeder losses
- Antenna misalignment losses
- Fixed atmospheric and ionospheric losses
- The Link-Power Budget Equation
- System Noise
- Carrier-to-Noise Ratio
- The Uplink
- Saturation flux density
- Input backoff
- Output back-off
- Combined Uplink and Downlink C/N Ratio
Unit 9 Satellite Access
- Single Access
- Preassigned FDMA
- Demand- Assigned FDMA
- Spade System
- Preassigned TDMA
- Demand-assigned TDMA
- Satellite-Switched TDMA
- Code- Division Multiple Access
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