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Satellite Wireless Communications

Minimum 45 hours

  Course description

This course is intended for Aerospace Engineering students, IT students in Telecommunications, Communications, Computer Engineers, Design Managers in the Telecommunications and Wireless Field.
This course provides basic principles of Communications Satellites. It covers link power budgets, summarizing the RF power available from an earth station trough a communications satellite and then back to another earth station, and the hardware in a communications satellite.

  Detailed Course Syllabus

Introduction to Satellite Wireless Communications

  1. Why use a satellite for Communications?
  2. What does a Satellite do?
  3. Satellite performance measurement
  4. Types of orbits
  5. Satellite and Earth station geometry
  6. Azimuth and Elevation definition
  7. Range and Range Rate
  8. Satellite link Delay

Link Budget

  1. Concepts in a Link Budget
  2. RF allocations by ITU
  3. Band Designations
  4. Frequency Reuse
  5. Types of Antennas
  6. Antenna Gain, Coverage, Patterns and Efficiency

Course Material

Course material will be in the form of slides, textbooks, scientific papers (conference papers and few journal papers), and reports from companies.