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11 - Satellites MCQ Questions
11 - Satellites MCQ Questions
a) Footprint
b) Spot
c) Earth
d) Region
4. The portion of the satellite communication link involving the transmission of traffic from ground
station to satellite.
a) Uplink
b) Lowlink
c) Paylink
d) Downlink
5. It is spacecraft places in orbit around the earth carrying on-board microwave receiving and
transmitting equipment.
a) Communication satellite
b) Terrestrial link
c) Transponder
d) Microwave repeater
6. What height must a satellite be placed above the surface of the earth in order for its rotation to be
equal to earth’s rotation?
a) 1500 km
b) 46000 km
c) 15000 km
d) 36000 km
7. As the height of a satellite orbit gets lower, the speed of the satellite _________.
a) increases
b) decreases
d) A or B is correct
9. Which of the following parameters (height of the satellite from earth, and the satellite’s line of sight)
refer to low earth orbits?
10. A ____________ satellite with an orbital period of one sidereal day or nominally, 24 h
a) Bent-pipe satellite
b) Processing satellite
c) Geostationary satellite
c) To receive signals
13. 47. The most popular satellite frequency range is 26 to 40 GHz and is called the ____ band.
a) C
b) L
c) Ka
d) Ku
a) 1
b) 3
c) 10
d) 5
a) 24
b) 55
c) 18
d) 40
a) their frequency
a) ionosphere
b) stratosphere
c) troposphere
d) ozone layer
23. Which of the following makes the existence of ionosphere (cold plasma) possible?
a) Rotation of the Earth
b) Radiation from sun
c) Solar flares
d) Radiation from distant stars
a) Satellite
b) Earth Station
c) Control Station
d) All of the above
a) FSS
b) BSS
c) DBS
d) MSS
e) b and d
a) LEO
b) MEO
c) GEO
d) a & c
a) tropopause
b) stratopause
c) mesopause
d) a & c
b) Rain attenuation
c) Cloud Attenuation
d) Atmospheric Absorption
31. Frequency band can be used for inter-satellite outside earth’s atmosphere
a) 20 and 25 GHz
b) K band
d) a & b
a) True
b) False
a) 90
b) 180
c) 0
d) 60
37. Attenuation due to rain is a function of drop-size distribution and polarization and is modeled as
= aRb dB / km
a) R, in units of m/s
b) R, in units of mm/h
c) R, in units of cm/min
d) R, in units of m/h
a) True
b) False
39. Heavy rain causes outage on link when attenuation exceeds link margin
a) True
b) False
b) Dean instability
c) Raleigh-Taylor Instability
d) Benjamin–Feir instability
e) a & c
42. Total electron content (TEC) is defined as the total number of electrons within a cross-sectional
volume along a path between two points and given in 1 TECU = _____
a) 10-16 e/m2
b) 10-16 e/m3
c) 1016 e/m3
d) 1016 e/m2
43.1/(C/N)overall = ______
a) (C/N)up + (C/N)down
b) (C/N)up x (C/N)down
c) 1/(C/N)up + 1/(C/N)down
d) 1/(C/N)up x 1/(C/N)down
ANSWERS
1. a
2. b
3. d
4. a
5. a
6. d
7. a
8. b
9. c
10. c
11. b
12. d
13. c
14. c
15. c
16. a
17. d
18. d
19. b
20. d
21. a
22. a
23. b
24. d
25. a
26. e
27. c
28. a
29. d
30. a
31. c
32. b
33. c
34. a
35. b
36. c
37. b
38. a
39. a
40. c
41. e
42. c
43. c