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CIA-I EXAMINATION
Sub Code: ECE17 Subject Name: SATELLITE COMMUNICATION

Branch: ECE Year: II/III ECE Semester: II/III

Date of Exam: Marks: 50 Time: 90 minutes

ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS

1. Explain the terms perigee and apogee with respect to satellite 2 Marks
orbiting the earth?
2. The average orbital distance of Jupiter is 5.2 times the average
orbital distance of the earth. It is graphically represented in figure 1.
Knowing that the earth orbits the sun approximately 365 days. Use
Kepler’s law of hormonie’s to predict the time for Jupiter to orbit
the sun.

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Figure 1
3. A satellite in an elliptical orbit around the earth has an apogee of
39,500 km and a perigee of 550 km as given in figure 2. What is the
orbital period of this satellite? Give your answer in hours. Assume 4 Marks
the average radius of the earth is 6,738.17 km and Kepler’s constant
has the value 3.986004418 x 105 km3/s2.
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Figure 2
4. A Satellite is orbiting the earth at an altitude of 450km above the 3 Marks
surface of the earth. What is the satellite’s orbital velocity?
5. Illustrate how do you achieve stabilization by momentum wheel? 4 Marks
6. An Earth station is located at latitude 35 degree N and longitude 100
degree W. Calculate the antenna look angles for a satellite at 67 8 Marks
degree W.
7. An earth station has a diameter of 30m and an overall efficiency of
69%. It is used to receive a signal of 4150MHZ. At this frequency,
the system noise temperature is 79K. When the antenna points at the
satellite at an elevation angle of 28 degree. a) what is the earth 4 Marks
station G/T under these conditions? b) if heavy rain causes the sky
temperature increases to 88K, what is the change in G/T value? c)
calculate the receiver power with an effective collecting antenna of
10m2 aperture?
8. Orbital radius of the earth is 1.5 x 10 5 m and Jupiter is 7.8 x 108 m.
Given the orbital period of earth is 1 year estimate the orbital period 3 Marks
of the planet Jupiter?
9. Differentiate between mean anomaly and argument of perigee with 3 Marks
neat diagram?
10. List and explain any one type of launching procedures of satellite. 5 Marks
11. Derive equations governing the design of satellite uplink and
downlink analysis for analyzing the performance of the satellite 8 Marks
signal transmission.
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12. For a satellite link operating in 12 GHz, the free space loss is 206
dB, the antenna pointing loss is 1 dB, and the atmospheric
absorption is 2 dB. The receiver [G/T] is 19.5 dB/K, and the receiver 2 Marks
feeder losses are 1 dB. The EIRP is 48 dBW. Calculate the carrier-
to-noise spectral density ratio.