Description
Satellite Communications (SATCOM) training course provides an introduction to communications satellite technologies, services, orbital mechanics to satellite design and launch, configuration and installation of earth stations, the implementation of communications links, the set-up of the satellite network, the capabilities, and limitations of current satellites.
The popular and intensive course provides the attendees with an in-depth background of satellite communication techniques as well as a state of the art update on key emerging technologies and future systems.
It addresses all important aspects of the subject, including traffic, multiple-access techniques, link budgets, the spacecraft bus, and the orbits.
Objectives
After completing this course, attendees will be able to:
- Explain the basics of Satellite Communications (SATCOM)
- Understand new SATCOM services and features
- Understand modern satellite system design , multiple access, modulation and coding schemes
- Understand orbital aspects
- Step through propagation aspects and antennas
- Investigate the state of the art in new areas such as speech and video coding, satellite networking and satellite personal communications
- Understand satellites subsystem & launching
- Understand satellite link design and analysis
- Define Very Small Aperture Terminals (VSAT)
- Understand Non-geosynchronous systems (NGSO)
- Explore GPS & Mobile Systems (Voice, Data and Video)
- Explain Internet Applications (GEO/ NGSO options)
- Explore the SATCOM trends
Course Outline
The Satellite Communications Business Model
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- Satellite organizations
- Private satellite networks
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Radio regulatory considerations
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Objectives of frequency/orbit management
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Satellite Communications (SATCOM) Overview
- Common types of satellites
- Satellite-based broadcasts
- Satellite TV
- Satellite radio, and pagers
- Satellite phones
- Communications Satellites
- Why catellites for communications
- Low Earth-Orbiting (LEO) communications satellites
- Geosynchronous Earth-Orbiting (GEO) communications satellites
- MEOs and HEOs
- Satellite transmission planning
- Link-budget analysis
- satellite-based networks
- VSAT networks
SAtellite communications systems DESIGN
- Basic Components
- Transmitters
- Antennas
- Power Generation
- Air Interfacing and Networking
- Basic Link Engineering
- Satellite Systems Planning
- Antennas
- Link Budgets
- Multiple Access Techniques
- Propagation Interference and Regulation
- Payload Engineering
- Spacecraft Engineering and Operations
- Earth Station Engineering
- Modulation and Modems
- Coding
- Mobile and Satellite PCN
- Military Satellite Communications
- Internet Service Provision over Satellite
- VSATs Networks and Services
- Satellite Navigation and Positioning
- Satellite Broadcasting
Satellite Networks
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Space network architectures
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Orbit types: GEO, LEO, MEO, HEO
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Modulation, Coding, Interleaving
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Link budgets for single link and multiple links
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Effects of the propagation delay
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Echo suppressors and echo cancellers.
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Spectrum allocations for satellite systems
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Multiple Access techniques: FDMA, TDMA, CDMA, OFDM
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Satellite component of UMTS
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- VoIP Problems over Satellite
- ITU-T IMT-2000
link design, modulation and Antennas
Propagation and Interference
- Radio noise
- Ionospheric effects
- Tropospheric effects
- Interference between satellite networks
- Interference with terrestrial networks
Satellite Access Techniques
- Network architectures
- Traffic multiplexing
- Multiple access, and assignments strategies
- Frequency-division multiple access (FDMA)
- Modulation and modems
- Introduction to modulation
- Channel characteristics
Satellite Engineering for Communications Satellites
- Satellite orbits
- Satellite design
- Future large geostationary mobile communications satellites
- Launch vehicles
- Commercial satellite programs
- Payload Engineering
Mobile satellite communications
- Introduction
- Frequency allocations
- Regional systems
- Current Networks
Satellite Personal Communication Networks
- Introduction and overview
- Wireless mobile radio systems
- Second-generation systems
Satellite Navigation
- Applications
- Fundamentals of time ranging
- System description of GPS
Future Trends
- Service Provisions and Quality for Analog/Digital
- Television and audio broadcasting
- Satellite Phones
- Voice and Video over IP
- Real-time audio, video and data
- VPN services
Who Should Attend
Professionals and managers who are new to the SATCOM industry, and who want to have a clear understanding of basic satellite communications.
Prerequisites
A basic knowledge of communications is desireable.