SRI ESHWAR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

COIMBATORE 202.
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

SATELLITE COMMUNICATION- Question Bank

UNIT I & II
PART A
1. What are the different applications of satellite systems?
2. Mention the different services of satellite systems.
3. Define Polar-orbiting Satellites.
4. State kepelers first law.
5. State Kepelers second law.
6. State kepelers third law.
7. Define apogee & perigee.
8. What is line of apsides?
9. Define ascending & descending node.
10.
Define inclination.
11.
Define mean anomaly & true anomaly .
12.
Mention the apogee &perigee height.
13.
Define Universal time.
14.
Mention the julian dates.
15.
Define Sideral day.
16.
Define Greenwich hour angle(GHA).
17.
Define geocentric latitude.
18.
what are the difference between the geodetic&geocentric
latitudes?
19.
What is meant by azimuth angle?
20.
What are the conditions of location of the earth station &
subsatellite point of the Azimuth angle?
21.
What is meant by transponder?
22.
Describe the spin stabilized satellites.
23. A satellite is orbiting in the equatorial plane with a period from perigee to perigee of 12
hours. Given that the eccentricity is 0.002, calculate the semi-major axis. The earth's
equatorial radius is 6378.1414 Km.
24. Determine the angle of tilt required for a polar mount used with an earth station at
latitude 49 degrees north. Assume a spherical earth of mean radius 6371 Km and ignore
earth station altitude.
25. Calculate the radius of circular orbit for which the period is 1 day
PART-B

1. Describe the terms of Earth orbiting satellites

2. Explain the orbital plane. Draw it neat sketch
3. Explain the Orbital perturbations.
4. Explain the geocentric equatorial &top centric co-ordinate system.
5. Explain the look angle determination. Draw it neat sketch.
6. Explain the polar mount antenna. Draw it neat sketch.
7. Discuss about frequency allocations for satellite services.
8. What are the effects of a nonspherical earth on the orbital mechanics of a satellite?
9. Discuss about near Geostationary orbits.
10. Determine the limits of visibility for an earth station situated at mean sea level, at latitude
48.42 degrees north and longitude 89.26 degrees West. Assume a minimum angle of
elevation of 5 degrees.
11. Discuss about sun transit outage
12. Discuss in detail about attitude control of a satellite.
13. What is the chief advantage of the TWTA used aboard satellites compared to other types
of high power amplifiers? What are the main disadvantages of TWTA?
14. With a neat block diagram, explain the attitude and orbit control
system present
in the space segment.
15. What are look angles and derive the expressions for azimuth and
elevation?
16. Explain Keplers laws. What are the fords that give rise to these laws?
17. Explain how a satellite is located with respect to earth.
18. Describe antenna look angles and how are they calculated.
19. Explain elevation angle and azimuth angle calculation with proper derivations.
20. Explain various types of orbital perturbations affecting the system.
21. A satellite is in 322-km high circular orbit Determine. i. Orbital angular velocity.
ii. Orbital period. iii. Orbital linear velocity.
22. Explain briefly what is meant by sun transit outage.
23. Explain briefly Doppler effect.
24. Explain Keplers three law of planetary motion.