[PDF] Satellite Communications Systems by Gerard Maral and Michel Bousquet

Copy of figures extracted from the 1990 Version of CCIR Volumes (XVIIth Plenary Meeting, Dusseldorf, 1990), the € Handbook on Satellite Communications (ITU Geneva, 1988) and the ITU-R Suggestions is made with the authorisation of the Worldwide Telecommunication Union (ITU) as copyright holder. The selection of the excerpts reproduced stays the only accountability of the authors and doesn’t contain in any manner the ITU.  This chapter describes the traits of satellite tv for pc communication programs.

It goals to fulfill the curiosity of an impatient reader and facilitate a deeper understanding by directing her or him to applicable chapters with out imposing the necessity to learn the entire work from starting to finish.  Satellite communications are the end result of analysis within the space of communications and area applied sciences whose goal is to realize ever growing ranges and capacities with the bottom doable prices. The Second World Conflict stimulated the enlargement of two very distinct applied sciences—missiles and microwaves.

The experience finally gained within the mixed use of those two strategies opened up the period of satellite tv for pc communications. The service supplied on this manner usefully enhances that beforehand supplied solely by terrestrial networks utilizing radio and cables. The area period began in 1957 with the launching of the primary synthetic satellite tv for pc (Sputnik). Subsequent years have been marked by varied experiments together with the next: Christmas greetings from President Eisenhower broadcast by SCORE (1958), the reflecting satellite tv for pc ECHO (1960), store-and-forward transmission by the COURIER satellite tv for pc (1960).

Powered relay satellites (TELSTAR and RELAY in 1962) and the primary geostationary satellite tv for pc SYNCOM (1963). In 1965, the primary industrial geostationary satellite tv for pc INTELSAT I (or Early Hen) inaugurated the lengthy collection of INTELSATs; in the identical 12 months, the primary Soviet communications satellite tv for pc of the MOLNYA collection was launched. The primary satellites supplied a low capability at a comparatively excessive value; for instance, INTELSAT I weighed 68 kg at launch for a capability of 480 phone channels and an annual value of $32 500 per channel on the time. This value resulted from a mixture of the price of the launcher, that of the satellite tv for pc, the quick lifetime of the satellite tv for pc (1.5 years) and itslow capability.

The discount in value is the results of a lot effort which has led to the manufacturing of dependable launchers which may put heavier and heavier satellites into orbit (usually 5900 kg at launch in 1975, reaching 10 500 kg by Ariane 5 ECA and 13 000 kg by Delta IV in 2008). As well as, growing experience in microwave strategies has enabled realisation of contoured multibeam antennas whose beams adapt to the form of continents, frequency re-use from one beam to the opposite and incorporation of upper energy transmission amplifiers. Elevated satellite tv for pc capability has led to a lowered value per phone channel. Along with the discount in the price of communication, essentially the most excellent characteristic is the number of companies provided by satellite tv for pc communications programs.

Initially these had been designed to hold communications from one level to a different, as with cables, and the prolonged protection of the satellite tv for pc was used to arrange lengthy distance hyperlinks; therefore Early Hen enabled stations on reverse sides of the Atlantic Ocean to be linked. Nonetheless, as a consequence of the restricted efficiency of the satellite tv for pc, it was essential to make use of earth stations outfitted with massive antennas and due to this fact of excessive value (round $10 million for a station outfitted with a 30m diameter antenna). The growing measurement and energy of satellites has permitted a consequent discount within the measurement of earth stations.

Satellite Communications Systems: Systems, Techniques and Technology PDF

Author(s): Gerard Maral, Michel Bousquet, Zhili Sun

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, Year: 2020

ISBN: 1119382084

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