UNIVERSITY QUESTION BANK

SATELLITE COMMUNICATION
Unit I
SUMMER - 16
Q1. Develop the equation of satellite orbit? (7)
Q2. A satellite is in an elliptical orbit with a perigee of 1000 km and apogee of 4000 km. using
a mean earth radius of 6378.14 km, find the period of the orbit in hours, minutes and
seconds and eccentricity of the orbit. (7)
Q3. Explain Attitude and orbit control system in space craft subsystem. (7)
Q4. Explain Telemetry Tracking and Command power system with neat sketch. (7)
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Q1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of geostationary orbit? (3)
Q2. State and explain Kepler’s laws of planetary motion. (6)
Q3. Explain briefly how you will locate a satellite in the orbit. (5)
Q4. Draw the block diagram of Attitude & Orbit Control system & explain it in detail. (7)
Q5. Write a short note on orbital perturbations. (7)
SUMMER – 17
Q1. State & explain Kepler's three law's of planetory motion. (6)
Q2. Explain six orbital elements with neat diagram. (8)
Q3. With neat sketch explain "Locating satellite in the orbit". Also derive an expression for
semi-minor axis & semi-major axis. (5)
Q4. What is look angle? Derive an expression for elevation angle with neat sketch. (5)
Q5. A satellite is an elliptical orbit with a perigee of 1000 km and an apogee of 4000 km.
Using a mean earth radius of 6378.14 km, find the period of the orbit in hours, minutes
& secs & eccentricity of orbit. (4)
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Q1. With neat diagram explain Kepler's three law's of planetary motion. (8)
Q2. The earth rotates once per sidereal day of 23h 56 min 4.095. Show that the radius of the
GEO is 42, 164, 17 km. (6)
Q3. A satellite is in elliptical orbit with a perigee of 1000 km and an apogee of 4000 km.
Using a mean earth radius of 6378.14 km, find the period of orbit & eccentricity of the
orbit.(4)
Q4. Explain longitudinal changes and Inclination changes in regards of orbital perturbation
with neat sketch. (10)
Unit II
SUMMER – 16
Q1. Explain system noise temperature and G/T ratio. (7)
Q2. Explain downlink design in details. (6)
Q3. Explain domestic satellite system with suitable example. (7)
Q4. Explain one-way satellite communication link. (6)
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Q1. Explain the design of the downlink of satellite communication system. Also derive the
expression for the power received at the earth station. (7)
Q2. An earth station antenna has a diameter of 30m, has an overall efficiency of 68% and is
used to receive a signal of 4150 MHz. At this frequency, the system noise temperature is
79K when the antenna points at the satellite at an elevation angle of 280. What is the earth
station G/T ratio under these conditions? If heavy rain causes the sky temperature to
increase so that the system noise temperature rises to 88K, what is new G/T value? (6)
Q3. A satellite at a distance of 40000 km from a point on the earth’s surface radiates a power
of 10W from an antenna with a gain of 17 dB in the direction of the observer. Find the
flux density at the receiving point & the power received by an antenna at this point with
an effective area of 10 m2. (7)
Q4. Explain various design issues related with uplink design & give the expression of C/N
for the same. (6)
SUMMER – 17
Q1. Explain system noise temperature & G/T ratio. Also derive an expression for C/N ratio.
(7)
Q2. A satellite at a distance of 40,000 km from a point on the earth's surface radiates a power
of 10w from an antenna with a gain of 17 dB in the direction of the observer. Find the
flux density at the receiving point and the power received by an antenna at this point with
an effective area of 10 m2. (6)
Q3. Explain the design of downlink of satellite communication system. Also derive the
expression for power received at the earth station. (7)
Q4. A satellite at a distance of 40,000 km from a point on the earth's surface radius a power
of 10w from an antenna with a gain of 17 dB in the direction of observer. Find the flux
density. (6)
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Q1. Derive an expression for system noise temperature (8)
𝑇𝑠 = [𝑇𝑖𝑛 + 𝑇𝑅𝐹 + 𝑇𝑚 /𝐺𝑅𝐹 + 𝑇𝐼𝐹 /𝐺𝑀 𝐺𝑅𝐹 ]
Q2. An earth station antenna has a diameter of 30m, has an overall efficiency of 68% and is
used to receive a signal at 4150 MHz. At this frequency, the system noise temperature is
79 k when the antenna points at the satellite at an elevation angle of 28º. What is the earth
station G/T ratio under these conditions? If heavy rain causes the sky temperature to
increase so that the system noise temperature rise to 88k, what is the new G/T value?
(5)
Q3. Write short notes on: (13)
1) Satellite uplink design.
2) Satellite downlink design
3) Direct Broadcast TV
Unit – III
SUMMER – 16
Q1. Explain the importance of multiple access techniques in FDMA. (7)
Q2. Explain the effects of intermodulation with necessary equation. (6)
Q3. Write short notes on (13)
a) TDMA synchronization with timing.
b) SS transmission and reception.
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Q1. What do you mean by intermodulation products? How are they produced? Explain with
mathematical expression. (7)
Q2. Write a short note on DAMA. (6)
Q3. What ate the techniques used for spread spectrum transmission? Explain SS-CDMA
transmission & reception using direct sequence psedonoise technique. (7)
Q4. Write a short note on TDMA. (6)
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Q1. Write short notes on any three with suitable diagram. (13)
i) TDM, TDMA synchronization & timing.
ii) FDMA
iii) CDMA
iv) On board processing.
Q2. What is meant by intermodulation products? Explain with mathematical expression. (7)
Q3. What are the techniques used for spread spectrum transmission? Explain SS-CDMA
transmission & reception using direct sequence pseudo-noise technique. (6)
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Q1. Write short notes on (13)
1) FDMA
2) TDMA, TDMA synchronization & Timing
3) CDMA
4) DAMA
Q2. For a satellite communication system (4)
𝐶
( ) = 40 𝑑𝐵
𝑁 𝑢𝑝
𝐶
( ) = 40 𝑑𝐵
𝑁 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛
What is the value of overall (C/N) 0. If the transponder introduces (C/I) = 48 dB then
what is (C/N)0 at the receiving earth station?
Q3. What is TDMA? What is TDMA frame? Explain TDMA in detail. What is preamble and
how it is useful in synchronization? Give the salient features of TDM. (9)

Unit – IV
SUMMER – 16
Q1. Explain the effects of propagation on satellite. (7)
Q2. Write a short notes on atmospheric absorption. (7)
Q3. What is scintillation effects? Explain Ionospheric scintillation. (7)
Q4. Explain rain and ice effects on satellite earth links. (7)
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Q1. What do you mean by propagation effects? Explain briefly. (6)
Q2. Explain the effect of atmospheric absorption on satellite communication. (7)
Q3. Explain rain & ice effect on satellite communication. (6)
Q4. Write short note on effect of rain on antenna noise temperature. (7)
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Q1. Explain the effect of atmospheric absorption on satellite communication. (7)
Q2. Write short notes on Tropospheric scintillation & low angle fading. (6)
Q3. Explain rain & Ice effect on satellite communication. (7)
Q4. Write short note on effect of rain on antenna noise temperature. (6)
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Q1. Write short notes on any three. (14)
1) Quantifying Attenuation & Depolarization
2) Atmospheric Absorption
3) Tropospheric scintillation and low noise fading.
4) Rain and Ice effect on satellite wave propagation.
Q2. Explain Rain effect on antenna noise. (4)
Q3. With neat sketch explain Atmospheric absorption, cloud attenuation and tropospheric
scintillation. (5)
Q4. In regard with propagation impairment count remeasures explain power control and
signal processing. (5)
Unit – V
SUMMER – 16
Q1. A (7, 4) cyclic code uses generator polynomial𝑔(𝑥) = 𝑥 3 + 𝑥 2 + 1, find the systematic
code word for data 1010, 0101, 1001 and 0110. (6)
Q2. What are convolutional codes? Explain how they are generated. State its advantages
over linear block codes. (7)
Q3. The parity check matrix of a (7, 4) linear block code is expressed as
1 1 1 0 1 0 0
𝐻 = [1 1 0 1 0 1 0]
1 0 1 1 0 0 1
Obtain generator matrix G & list all the code vectors. (7)
Q4. Write short notes on any two. (6)
a) Linear block codes.
b) Cyclic codes.
c) Channel capacity.
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Q1. Explain channel capacity. State & explain Hartley Shannon law with power limited &
Bandwidth limited link. (7)
Q2. Construct a decoding table for a single error correcting (7, 4) cyclic code if the generator
polynomial g(x) is x3 + x2 +1. If the received code ward is 1101010, find whether it is in
error. If yes, what is the correct code ward which was transmitted? (7)
Q3. The parity check matrix of a (7, 4) linear block code is expressed as (7)
1 1 1 0 1 0 0
𝐻 = [1 1 0 1 0 1 0]
1 0 1 1 0 0 1
Obtain generator matrix G & list all the code vectors.
Q4. What are convolutional codes? Explain how they are generated. State its advantages over
linear block codes. (7)
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Q5. Write short notes on any two. (7)
i) Channel capacity. Ii) Error detecting codes. Iii) Linear block codes.
Q6. The parity check matrix of a (7, 4) linear block code is expressed as (7)
1 1 1 0 1 0 0
𝐻 = [1 1 0 1 0 1 0]
1 0 1 1 0 0 1
i) Find generator matrix ii) List all code vectors
Q7. What are convolutional codes? Explain how they are generated? State its advantages over
linear block code. (7)
Q8. Construct a decoding table for a single error-correcting (7, 4) cyclic code if the generator
polynomial g(x) is x3+ x2+ 1. If the received codeword is 1101010, find whether it is an
error, if yes what is the correct codeword which was transmitted? (7)
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Q1. Write short notes on any two. (7)
1) Linear block codes
2) Cyclic codes
3) Channel capacity
Q2. The parity check matrix of a (7, 4) linear block code is expressed as (6)
1 1 1 0 1 0 0
𝐻 = [1 1 0 1 0 1 0]
1 0 1 1 0 0 1
Obtain generator matrix G & list all the code vectors.
Q3. A (7, 4) cyclic code uses generator polynomial g(x) = x3+x2+1,find the systematic
codeward for data 1010, 0101, 1001, 0110 (6)
Q4. What are convolutional codes? Explain how they are generated. State its advantages over
linear block codes. (7)
Unit – VI
SUMMER – 16
Q1. Explain the earth station design requirement in detail. (7)
Q2. Explain the importance of LNA, HPA in earth station design. (6)
Q3. Write short notes on any two (13)
a) RF multiplexing.
b) Factors affecting orbit utilization.
c) Tracking.
d) HPA
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Q1. Write short notes on any three (13)
a) LNA & HPA
b) Tracking.
c) RF multiplexer.
d) Factors affecting orbit utilization.
Q2. Explain the factors affecting the orbit utilization. (6)
Q3. What are the requirements of earth station antenna for satellite communication? (7)
 SUMMER – 17
Q1. Write short notes on any three. (13)
i) HPA ii) LNA iii) Factors affecting orbit utilization. iv) RF multiplexing.
Q2. What is tracking? Why tracking is required. Explain all the techniques with neat sketch.
(7)
Q3. Explain earth station design requirement in detail. (6)
WINTER – 17
Q1. Explain the earth station design requirements in detail. (7)
Q2. Why tracking is required? Explain all the techniques with neat sketch. (6)
Q3. Write short notes on any three. (13)
1) LNA
2) HPA
3) RF multiplexing
4) Factors affecting orbit utilization.