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SATELLITE MULTIPLE ACCESSING

ARRANGEMENTS

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DEFINITIONS

TERMS

Also called as Multiple Destination, It implies that more

than one user has access to one or more radio
channels within a satellite communications channel.
1)

2)

3)

Multiple Accessing Arrangement:

Frequency-division multiple accessing
(FDMA)
Time-division multiple accessing (TDMA)
Code-division multiple accessing (CDMA)

A given number of the available voice-band channels

from each earth station are assigned a dedicated
destination.

Preassignment(dedicated)
Demand Assignment

Voice channels are assigned on an as-needed basis.

4)

The method of assigning adjacent channels different

electromagnetic polarizations and is possible by using
orthogonal polarization and spacing adjacent
channels 20 MHz apart.

5)

Eskimo word meaning little brother.

6)

Domestic Satellites operated by Telsat Canada.

7)

A method of multiple accessing where a given RF

bandwidth is divided into smaller frequency bands.

8)

Multiple Accessing

Multiple channel per carrier formats assigned and

remain fixed for a long Period of time.

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Frequency Reuse

Anik

Anik-E communications
Satellite

FDMA

Fixed-Assignment, Multiple
Access (FAMA)

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Assigning carrier frequency on temporary basis using a

statistical assignment process.

10)

An acronym for Single-channel-per-carrier PCM

multiple Access Demand-assignment Equipment.

11)

Stands for Single-Carrier-Per-Channel.

A time division-multiplexed transmission that is

12)
frequency division multiplexed.

The predominant Multiple-access method of timedivision multiplexing digitally modulated carriers

13)
between participating earth stations within a satellite
network through a common satellite transponder.

An RF-to-RF repeater that simply receives the earth

station transmissions, amplifies them, and then re14)
transmit them in a downlink beam that is received by
all other participating station.

15)

It is where transmissions from all earth stations are

synchronized.

16)

It is where all receiving stations recover a frequency

and phase coherent carrier for PSK demodulation

An acronym for Conference of European Postal and

17) Telecommunications Administrations, is commonly
used TDMA frame format for digital satellite system

18)

Sometimes referred to as Spread-Spectrum

Multipleentire allocated bandwidth Access, the
transmissions can spread throughout the

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Demand-Assignment
Multiple Access

SPADE

SCPC

Common Signaling
Channel
(CSC)

TDMA

Transponder

Reference Burst

Carrier Recovery
Sequence
(CRS)

CEPT

Code-Division Multiple
Access (CDMA)

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A unique binary word that each earth stations

transmissions are encoded.

20) It compare two signals and recover the original data.

It assigns an individual terrestrial channel (TC) to a

particular satellite channel (SC) for the duration
21)
of
the call.

Chip Code

Correlator

Digital non interpolated

Interface

It assigns a terrestrial channel to a

22) satellite channel only when speech energy is present
on the TC.

A form of analog channel compression that has been

23)
used for sub oceanic cables for many years.

The art or science of plotting, ascertaining or directing

the course of movements, in other words, knowing
24)
where you are and being able to find your way
around.

It is the most ancient and rudimentary method of

25) navigation and simply continuing to travel about until
you reach your destination, assuming of course
that you have one.
Earliest effective means of navigation wherein
direction and distance are determined from precisely
26) timed sightings of celestial bodies, including the stars
and
moon.

Method of navigation by means of fixing a position

and direction with respect to familiar, significant
27)
landmarks such as railroad tracks, water towers, barns,
mountains and bodies of water.

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Digital Speech
Interpolated Interface

Time-Assignment
Speech Interpolation
(TASI)

Navigation

Wandering

Celestial Navigation

Piloting

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A navigation technique that determines position by

extrapolating a series of measured velocity increments.

The term derived from the word deduced and not

29) necessarily from the fate of the people who used the
technique.

30)

He used dead reckoning successfully in 1927 during his

historic 33-hour transatlantic journey.

31)

She attempted to make the first around-the-world in

1937 using the dead reckoning technique.

Navigation technique wherein the position is determined by measuring the travel time of an electro
32) magnetic wave as it moves from a transmitter to a
receiver.

33)

A radio Navigation system for terrestrial surface

broadcast.

34)

Radio Navigation system that provide global coverage

and terrestrial surface broadcast.

35) Also a terrestrial surface broadcast.

36) Low-orbit
satellite
coverage.

broadcast,

Dead

Charles Lindbergh

Amelia Earhart

Radio Navigation

Decca

Omega

LORAN

provides

global

37) Medium-orbit satellite broadcast also provides global

coverage.
Means of radio navigation in which receivers acquire
38) Coded signals from two pairs of high-powered, land
based transmitters whose locations are precisely
known.
An acronym for Navigation System with Time and
39)
Ranging.

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Dead Reckoning

Navy Transit GPS

Navstar GPS

LORAN

Navstar

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An abbreviation for Global Positioning System.

Two levels of service or accuracy:
40)
Standard Positioning Service
Precise Positioning Service

GPS

A satellite-based open navigation system which simply

means that it is available to anyone equipped with a
GPS receiver.
41)

Consists of three segments:

a space segment
a ground control segment
user segment

42)

It is when was the Navstar declared as fully

operational by the U.S. Air Force Space Command.

43)

It was completed in 1994 and is maintained by the

United States Air Force.

A positioning and timing service that is available to all

44) GPS users on a continuous, worldwide basis with
no direct change.

Sometimes called Space Segment, consists of

24operational satellites revolving around Earth in six
45)
orbital planes approximately 60 apart with four
satellites in each plane.

46)

It produces highly accurate timing signals for satellites.

47) A unique integer number that is used to encrypt the

signal from that satellite.
48)

A term associated with a table showing the position of

a heavenly body on a number dates in a regular
sequence, in essence, an astronomical almanac.

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Navstar GPS

April 27, 1995

Navstar Satellite System

Standard Positioning
Service

Satellite Segment

Cesium Atomic Clock

Pseudorandom Noise
(PRN) Code Number

Ephemeris

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Error in the receivers clock which affects the accuracy

of the time-difference measurement.

The Navstar control segment.

It consists of :
Fixed-location ground based monitor
50)
stations
Master Control Station
uplink transmitter

It makes standard GPS more accurate. It works by

51) canceling out most of the natural and man-made
errors that creep into normal GPS measurements.

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Clock Bias Error

Operational Control
System

Differential GPS

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