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EC1403 Satellite Communication ECE

KINGS
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING


ACADEMIC YEAR 2011- 2012 / ODD SEMESTER

SUB.CODE-NAME : EC1403 - SATELLITE COMMUNICATION


BRANCH : ECE YEAR/SEM : IV / VII
UNIT - I
OVERVIEW OF SATELLITE SYSTEMS, ORBITS AND LAUNCHING METHODS
PART A (2 Marks)
1. What are the different applications of satellite systems?
2. Mention the different services of satellite systems.
3. Define Polar-orbiting Satellites.
4. State kepeler’s first law.
5. StateKepeler’s second law.
6. State kepeler’s third law.
7. Define apogee & perigee.
8. What is prograde Orbit?
9. Define ascending & descending node.
10. Define mean anomaly & true anomaly.
11. Define Greenwich hour angle (GHA).
12. Mention the Julian dates.
13. What is sidereal time?
14. Define Sidereal day.
PART B(16 Marks)
1. Describe the terms of Earth orbiting satellites. (16)
2. Explain the orbital plane. Draw it neat sketch. (16)
3. Explain the Orbital perturbations. (16)
4.Explain the geocentric equatorial &top centric co-ordinate system. (16)
UNIT II
GEOSTATIONARY ORBIT AND SPACE SEGMENT
PART A (2 Mark)
1. What is meant by azimuth angle?
2.What are the conditions of location of the earth station & sub satellite point of the Azimuth
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angle?
3. Write short notes on attitude control system.
4. What is an polar antenna?
5.What is declination?
6. Define the terms in Eclipse.
7. What is meant by payload?
8. What is meant by transponder?
9. Write short notes on station keeping.
10. What is mean by Pitch angle?
11. What is an propellant?
12. What is an Yaw?
13. What is an Zero ‘g’?
14. Describe the spin stabilized satellites.
15. What is meant by frequency reuse?
16. What is meant by spot beam antenna?
17. What is a TWTA?
PART B(16 Marks)
1. Explain the sub satellite point (16)
2. Explain the look angle determination. Draw it neat sketch. (16)
3. Explain the polar mount antenna. Draw it neat sketch. (16)
4. Explain the limits of visibility & sun transit outage. (16)
5. Explain the attitude control. Draw it neat sketch. (16)
6. Explain the Transponders system. (16)
7. Draw the neat sketch & explain the Input Demultiplexer. (16)
8. Draw the neat sketch & explain the Antenna subsystem. (16)
UNIT-III
EARTH SEGMENT AND SPACE LINK
PART A(2 Mark )
1. Define input back off.
2. Define diplexer.
3 .What is an OMT?
4. What is an polarization interleaving?
5.Define S/N ratio.
6. What is noise weighting?
7. What is an EIRP?

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8. Write the equations of losses for clear sky conditions.
9. What is an noise power spectral density?
10. What is an Intermodulation noise?
11. What are the types of antenna losses?
12. What is an antenna losses?
13. Define sky noise.
14. Define noise factor.
15. What is an Adsorptive n/w?
17. Define saturation flux density.
PART B (16 Marks)
1. Draw the block diagram & explain the Receive only home TV systems. (16)
2. Explain the indoor unit& outdoor unit. (16)
3. Draw the block diagram & explain the Master antenna TV system. (16)
4. Explain the EIRP& Transmission losses. (16)
5. Draw the block diagram& Explain the System noise temperature. (16)
UNIT-IV
SATELLITE ACCESS
PART A (2 Mark)
1. What is a single mode of operation?
2.What are the methods of multiple access techniques?
3. What is in CDMA?& its types?
4. What is a thin route service?
5. What is an important feature of Intelsat SCPC system?
6. What is a TDMA? What are the Advantage?
7. What is preamble?
8. Define guard time.
9. What is meant by decoding quenching?
10. What is meant by direct closed loop feedback?
11. What is meant by feedback closed loop control?
12. What is meant by telephone load activity factor?
13. What is meant by digital speech interpolation?
14. What are the types of digital speech interpolation?
15. What is meant by freeze out?
16. What is DSI?
17. What is the advantage of SPEC method over DSI method?

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18. What are the demerits of conventional approach method?
19. Define space division multiplexing.
20. Define satellite switched TDMA?
21.What is processing gain?
22. What are the applications of Radar sat?
23. What is ECEF?
24. What is dilution of precision?
25. What is PDOP?
26. What is burst code word?
27. Define SIC.
28. What is a start of receiving frame?
29. What is meant by burst position acquisition & burst position synchronization?
30. What is ratio of bit rate IF bandwidth?
PART B(16 Marks)
1. Explain the operation of FDMA system with relevant diagram. (16)
2. Explain the operation of FDMA down link analysis. (16)
3. Draw the Frame format & explain the operation of TDMA system. (16)
4. Draw the data format & explain the Unique word detection. (16)
5. Explain the Satellite switched TDMA & CDMA. Draw the neat sketch. (16)
UNIT-V
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM
PART A(2 Marks )
1. Define GIS.
2. What are the types of Maps?
3. Define the term Projection and list out the types.
5. Define Raster data format.
6. Define Vector data format.
7. What is meant by Overlaying?
PART B(16 Marks)
1. Describe the difference between raster and vector data models used to represent
maps in a GIS. (16)
2. Analyze the raster and vector data by retrieval, reclassification, Overlaying and
buffering in GIS. (16)
3. Explain about data input hardware of GIS. (16)
4. Explain about data output hardware of GIS. (16)

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5. What is Map? Explain its types. (16)
6. Discuss in detail about the integration of GIS and Remote Sensing. (16)
7. Explain about Water resource applications using GIS. (16)
8. Explain about Urban applications using GIS. (16)

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