GPS and Satellite Communication
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GPS and Satellite Communication Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for GPS and Satellite Communication (subject code 4726005) as prescribed for EACE · Semester 2 divides the course into 7 units, covering 46 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 (4726005)Unit 1 UNIT I
- Satellite Orbits: Kepler’s Laws
- Newton’s law, orbital parameters
- orbital perturbations
- station keeping
- GEO stationery and non-GEO- stationary orbits
Unit 2 UNIT II
- Radio Wave Propagation: Signal impairment: Rain attenuation
- Atmospheric losses
- Ionospheric effects
- Antenna radiation patterns. w.e.f
Unit 3 UNIT III
- Space Earth Segment And Satellite Link Design: Spacecraft technology structure
- Primary power
- Attitude and orbit control
- Thermal control
- Earth station technology Terrestrial interface
- Transmitter and receiver
- Tracking and command
- Satellite uplink and downlink analysis and design
- link budget
- E/N calculation performance impairments system noise
- intermodulation and interference
Unit 4 UNIT-IV
- Fundamentals Of Satellite Navigation: Concept of Ranging Using Time-of-Arrival Measurements
- Reference Coordinate Systems
- Constellation Design
- GNSS Signals
- Positioning Determination Using Ranging Codes
- Obtaining User Velocity
- Frequency Sources
Unit 5 UNIT-V
- Regional Satnav Systems: Quasi-Zenith Satellite System
- Space Segment
- Control Segment
- Geodesy and Time Systems
- Navigation with Indian Constellation (NavIC)
Unit 6 UNIT VI
- Global Navigation System: Space Segment Overview
- Control Segment Overview
- User Segment Overview
- GPS Geodesy and Time Scale
- GPS Signals
- GPS Ephemeris Parameters and Satellite Position Computation
Unit 7 UNIT-VII
- Satellite Applications: INTELSAT Series
- Direct broadcast satellites (DBS) - Direct to home Broadcast (DTH)
- Digital audio broadcast (DAB) - World space services
- Business TV (BTV)
- Specialized services – Email
- Video Conferencing
- Recent applications
- Recent Development in GPS and Satellite Communication (Study from latest research papers from Scopus indexed/web of science journals
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