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Josephs College of Engineering, Chennai-119


Department of ECE
Assignment Questions I
Subject Code: EC2045

Subject Name: Satellite Communication

PART A
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Define apogee
What are the geostationary satellites?
Differentiate geostationary and geosynchronous satellite
A satellite moving is orbiting in the equatorial plane with a period from period from
perigee to perigee of 12hrs.Given the eccentricity is 0.02.Calculate the semimajor axis
.The earths equatorial radius is 6378.1414km.
State Keplers first law.
Give the types of satellite services
What is sun transit outage?
Write short notes on station keeping.
PART B

1. Explain how Keplerss and Newtons law are used to describe the orbit.
2. Explain the (i)orbital perturbations(ii) Launching vehicles
3. Briefly discuss about eclipse effect and other outages that affect the working of
geostallite.
4. Determine the look angles and the range for a geostationary satellite at 30degrees for an
ES at latitude 20degrees.The ES is situated 1000m above mean sea level

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