EC4590 Communications Satellite Systems Engineering

Communication satellite systems including the satellite and user terminals. Subjects include orbital mechanics, satellite description, earth terminals, detailed link analysis, frequency division multiple access, time division multiple access, demand assignment, random multiple access, and spread spectrum multiple access. Various military satellite communications systems are introduced.

Prerequisite

EC3510, EO4516

Lecture Hours

3

Lab Hours

0

Course Learning Outcomes

·       Perform a complete link design for a repeater satellite including frequency reuse, adjacent satellite interference, rain-induced attenuation, rain depolarization.

·       Perform an analysis of low earth orbit satellite constellation.

·       Perform a beam pattern design for a high-throughput satellite system.

·       Design a DAMA-TDMA system for repeater satellites.