1. What is the number of satellites present in the Iridium system?

a) 72
b) 51
c) 66
d) 32

2. The application of satellite systems is ____

a) Navigation

b) Military satellites

c) Weather forecasting

d) All of the above

3. The following comes under the services of satellite systems.

a) Signal transmission

b) Information transmission

c) Broadcasting satellite services

d) None of the other mentioned options

4. ________ satellites can provide direct universal voice and data communications for handheld
terminals communications

a) GPS

b) Iridium

c) Teledesic

d) None of the above

5. Iridium satellites are

a) GEO

b) MEO

c) LEO

d) none of the above

6. _______ satellites provide time and location information for vehicles and ships.

a) GPS

b) Iridium

c) Teledesic
d) None of the above

7. Instead of a conventional aerial antenna, receiving dishes are used to receive the signal and deliver it
to the TV set or station.

a) True

b) False

8. Downlink satellite dishes are very large, as much as 9 to 12 meters diameter

a) True

b) False

9. ______ viewers are restricted to only a few limited programming alternatives, but ______ viewers
have a broad range of channels and services to select.

a) Satellite TV, cable TV

b) Cable TV, cable TV

c) Cable TV, satellite TV

d) Satellite TV, satellite TV

10. What satellites do best

a) point to multipoint

b) point to point

c) broadcasting

d) a & c

11. Mobile Satellite Communications earns more than half of all satellite communications revenues.

a) True

b) False

12. Directv has been called the most successful business venture of the century

a) True

b) False

13. Mobile Satellite Communications use ______

a) A mix of orbit types

b) GEO

c) LEO
d) MEO

e) c and d

14. Mobile Satellite Communications use a mix of frequencies: mostly ____ and some _____, Feeder
links use _______

a) S-Band / L-Band / C, Ka, and Ku-Band

b) C-Band / S-Band / L, Ka, and Ku-Band

c) L-Band / S-Band / C, Ka, and Ku-Band

d) L-Band / C-Band / L, Ka, and Ku-Band

15. Latency of LEO comparable with terrestrial long distance connections:

a) 10 - 15 s

b) 5 - 10 s

c) 10 - 15 ms

d) 5 - 10 ms

16. LEO systems are simple systems

a) True

b) False

17. _____ is a major player in using GEO Satellite Communication Systems

a) Iridium

b) Globalstar

c) ICO Global

d) Orbcomm

e) All of the above

f) None of the above

18. _________ uses 66 satellites in 6 planes at 780 km, ________ uses 48 satellites in 8 planes at 1414
km, ________ uses 10 satellites in 2 planes at 10,255 km

a) Globalstar, Iridium, ICO

b) Iridium, ICO, Globalstar

c) Iridium, Globalstar, ICO

d) ICO, Globalstar, Iridium

19. Iridium company went into bankruptcy because

a) Technologically flawless

b) Very expensive

c) Cannot compete with GSM

d) b & c

20. Omni-directional antenna has G =

a) 1 dB

b) 0 dB

c) 10 dB

d) None of the above

21. ____ system shorter path length compared to ______ system means lower path loss

a) LEO/GEO

b) GEO/LEO

22. Handheld telephone set (satphone) must have omni-directional antenna

a) True

b) False

23. Pre bankruptcy, Iridium had ___ gateways wide, Thuraya has ___ gateways wide

a) 1, 11

b) 66, 2

c) 11, 1

d) 77, 3

24. Iridium satellites have _____ links to ____ adjacent satellites

a) 30 GHz, 4

b) 30 MHz, 6

c) 21 GHz, 6

d) 21 MHz, 4

25. In Iridium all signals must go through _____ at each end of link

a) Air

b) Gateway
c) Users

d) None of the above

26. Why did Iridium Fail?

a) Satphones don’t work indoors

b) Call cost was too high

c) Entire infrastructure required before first subscriber

d) Political access problems

e) All of the above

27. Thuraya satellites are

a) GEO

b) MEO

c) LEO

28. Thuraya satellites provide global coverage

a) True

b) False

29. Thuraya User Air Interface has higher downlink frequency band than uplink frequency band

a) True

b) False

30. Why didn’t Thuraya Fail although Iridium, Orbcom and others have been big money losers?

a) Less infrastructure needed to break even

b) Dual mode saves users money

c) System much simpler, only two operational satellites and one gateway

d) All of the above

ANSWERS

1. c
2. d
3. c
4. b
5. c
6. a
7. a
8. b Uplink
9. c
10. d
11. b Video distribution/DBS-TV
12. a
13. a
14. c
15. d
16. b complex systems due to moving satellites
17. f “if LEO then answer e”
18. c
19. d
20. b
21. a
22. a
23. c
24. c
25. b
26. e
27. a
28. b Iridium
29. b lower
30. e