Satellite Communications

Satellite Communications
Question Bank
Part A: Short answers; Part B: Long answers
Unit-I
PART-A
1. The earth rotates once per sidereal day of 23hr 56m 4.09s, show that radius of GEO
42,164.17 Km.
2. List various frequency bands for satellite communication and their frequency ranges.
3. Solve for the orbital period of a LEO satellite at an altitude of 400 km, assuming the
radius of earth 6.37×106 m and mass of the earth equal to 5.98×1024kg.
4. Explain GTO and AKM technique used to place satellite in Geostationary orbit.
5. A satellite in circular orbit at an altitude of 9573 km revolves around the earth, calculate
its velocity.
6. Describe subsatellite point with diagram.
PART-B
1. State Kepler Laws and Explain locating the satellite in the Orbit with orbit description
equations and diagrams.
2. Explain the longitudinal changes and Inclination changes of satellite due to orbital
perturbations.
3. Explain look angle determination and derive for elevation and azimuthal angle
calculation with relevant equations.
4. Explain orbital elements for locating satellite with respect to Earth.
Unit-II
PART-A
1. Describe major tasks of Telemetry System.
2. Describe salient features Horn antennas used for communication satellites.
3. Explain basic relationship in aperture antennas used to determine the size of the antenna
on satellite.
4. Describe the term station keeping.
PART-B
1. Explain the functions of Telemetry, Tracking and Command Subsystem with block
diagrams.
2. Explain the operation of Attitude and Orbit control sub-system with block diagram.
3. Explain the operation of any two types of transponders with block diagram.
4. Explain equipment reliability and space qualification.
Unit-III
Part-A
1. Explain relation between noise figure and noise temperature with relevant expression.
2. Describe the types of losses in satellite links.
3. A low noise amplifier has a noise figure of 1.5dB find the noise temperature of the
amplifier if the input to signal noise ratio is 100. Evaluate S/N at the output of amplifier,
assume noise temperature as 290 K.
4. Express link equation in decibels.
5. Describe various or types of losses in satellite links.
Part -B
1. Explain basic transmission theory and derive for link equation.
2. Explain the calculation of system noise temperature with block diagram and prove that
C/N ratio is directly proportional to G/T ratio.
3. Explain the procedure for downlink and uplink design of satellite links with relevant
equations.
4. Explain satellite link Design for specified C/N with relevant equations.
Unit-IV
Part -A
1. Distinguish the terms multiplexing and multiple access.
2. Considering the case of 36 MHz C-band Transponder with down link frequency range
of 3705-3741 MHz and transponder unmodulated carriers at 3718 and 3728 MHz. Find
IM products in FDMA scheme.
3. What are the applications of VSAT?
4. Describe tropospheric scintillations.
5. Describe Faraday rotation.
Part-B
1. Explain various propagation effects on satellite signals such as depolarization, rain and
cloud attenuation, tropospheric and ionospheric scintillations and faraday rotation.
2. Explain the generation of intermodulation (IM) products with equations and calculation
of C/N with intermodulation.
3. Explain TDMA frame structure and synchronization in TDMA network.
4. Explain DS-SS-CDMA transmission and reception with relevant equations and diagrams.
5. Explain SCPC-FDMA technique with transmitter and receiver blocks.
Unit-V
Part-A
1. Discuss the preliminaries for satellite traffic model.
2. Describe Queueing systems used to model arrival processes.
3. Describe limitations of circuit switching systems.
4. Describe throughput of satellite channel.
5. Discuss the advantages of satellite packet communication.
Part-B
1. Explain the message transmission by FDMA, the M/G/1 queue with expressions.
2. Explain the message transmission by TDMA.
3. Explain satellite packet switching using PURE ALOHA and Slotted ALOHA.

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