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Exam Date & Time: 06-Oct-2020 (09:30 AM - 01:00 PM)

BMS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Autonomous Institute Affiliated to VTU, Supplementary Semester End Examinations October 2020
Satellites: Principles and Applications [16TE8IESPA]
Marks: 100 Duration: 210 mins.

Institutional Elective, Semester : VIII

Answer all the questions.
Instructions: 1. Answer FIVE full questions, using the given internal choices. 2. Missing data, if any, may be suitably assumed.

1) Explain some of the milestones in the Indian space programme. (7)

a)
b) Explain Kepler's laws of planetary motion. A satellite is moving in an elliptical orbit with its semi (8)
major axis and semi minor axis as a and b respectively, and an eccentricity of 0.6. The satellite
takes 3 hrs to move from point B to point A. How much time will it take to move from point A to point
B?
c) An earth station is located at 30◦ west longitude and 60 ◦North latitude. Determine the earth (5)
station's Azimuth and elevation with respect to a geostationary satellite located at 50◦ West
longitude. The orbital radius is 42,164 km.(Assume the radius of the earth to be 6378 km).
2) Draw the structure of a satellite and list the functions of the various subsytstems of the satellite. (10)

a)
b) Prove that T=gmIsp/F which is an expression for operation time in propulsion subsystem of a (6)
satellite. Explain the two types of satellite stabilization techniques.
c) The received signal strength in a certain horizontally polarized antenna is 20 db when receiving a (4)
right handed circularly polarized electromagnetic wave. Comput the received signal strength when:
a) The incident wave is horizontally polarized
b) The incident wave is vertically polarized
c) The incident wave is left hand circularly polarized
The received wave polarization makes an angle of 60◦ with the horizontal.
[OR] Explain the Altitude and orbit control system of satellite. (10)
3)
a)
b) Explain the following parameters of Antenna.(i) Gain (ii) EIRP (10)
(iii) Beamwidth (iv) Bandwidth (v) Polarisation (vi) Aperture.
4) Explain the generation and detection of (i) AM signal (ii) FM signal (8)

a)
b) With neat diagram explain the following: ASK, FSK and PSK. (9)
c) An analog signal is sampled at 10KHz. If the number of quantizing levels is 128, find the time (3)
duration of one bit of binary encoded signal.
[OR] Explain the following multiplexing techniques(a) FDM (b) TDM (8)
5)

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b) Draw the block diagram of the MCPC/FDM/FM/FDMA system (5)
c) Compute the free space path loss in decibels for the following conditions: (7)
1) For a path of 10km at 4 GHz operating frequency 2) Earth station transmitting antenna
EIRP=50dBW satellite receiving antenna gain=20 dB and received power at satellite=-120dBW.
6) Give an account of some communication satellites. (7)

a)
b) Explain Iridium satellite constellation. (7)
c) Explain the various types of sensors on board remote sensing satellites. (6)
7) List certain payloads for astronomical studies and their applications. (10)

a)
b) Explain scientific satellites for study of earth. (10)

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