1. State Kepler’s three laws.

The semi-major axis and the semi-minor axis of an elliptical satellite orbit are 20,000 Km
2. and 16,000 Km respectively. Determine the Apogee and Perigee distances.

3. Mention Apogee and Perigee height.

What is meant by azimuth angle?

4.

5. What is sub-satellite point?

6. What is an orbital perturbation?

A satellite is orbiting in the equatorial plane with a period from perigee to perigee of 12
7. hours. Given that the eccentricity is 0.002, Calculate the semi - major axis. The earth's
equatorial radius is 6378.1414 Km.

The semi-major axis and the semi-minor axis of an elliptical satellite orbit are 20,000 Km
8. and 16,000 Km respectively. Determine the Apogee and Perigee distances.

9. Differentiate Cylindrical type satellite and Solar sail satellite.

What are the conditions required for an orbit to be Geostationary?

10.

11. Distinguish between LEO system and MEO system.

12. Define payload and transponder

13. Mention the importance of AOCS and what are the techniques used?

14. What is meant by station keeping?

15. What is Sun transit outage?

16. Distinguish mean anomaly and true anomaly

Describe Hohmann transfer orbit?

17.

18. What is momentum wheel stabilization?

19. What is meant by input back off of a transponder?

20. Differentiate ascending node from descending node

PART-B

Explain in detail about orbital perturbations with necessary equations.

1.

2. Explain various orbital parameters in detail with relevant diagrams.

 Explain about Spinning satellite stabilization and Momentum wheel stabilization.
3.

Explain about power subsystems and thermal control in satellite communication.

4.
(i) Discuss the effects Non-spherical earth and Atmospheric drag on Satellite
Communication.

5. (ii) The Cosmos 1675 satellite has an apogee height of 39342 Km and a perigee height of
613 Km. Determine the Semi major axis and the eccentricity of its orbit. Assume a mean
earth radius of 6371 Km.

Determine the limits of visibility for an earth station situated at mean sea level, at latitude
48.42 degrees North and longitude 89.26 degrees West. Assume a minimum angle of
6.
elevation of 5 degrees.

Explain about Wide band receiver and TWTA with necessary diagrams. Also mention
7. their merits.

(i) Explain how Station keeping helps to keep a geostationary satellite in its correct orbital
slot.
8.
(ii) What is the need for thermal control in satellite? How is it achieved?

PART-C

9. Describe the look angle determination and draw the suitable diagram.

Describe the steps involved in launching a satellite with diagrams and explain about
10. different launch vehicles.

Explain the working of TT&C System with a suitable diagrams.

11.
Evaluate the transponder’s function and applications with diagrams.
12.
An earth station is located at latitude 12° S and longitude 52° W. Calculate the antenna look
13. angles for a satellite at 70° W.

(i) How the satellite positions are estimated using the sub-satellite points?
14.
(ii) Calculate the radius of a circular orbit for which the periods is 1 day.
Discuss in detail various functional units of a transponder with necessary diagrams.
15.
With a neat block diagram, explain the attitude and orbit control system present in the space segment.
16.
Block diagrams for Attitide and Orbit control