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MS1SAT - Satellite Systems

Course specification
Course title Satellite Systems
Acronym MS1SAT
Study programme Electrical Engineering and Computing
Module System Engineering and Radio Communications
Type of study master academic studies
Lecturer (for classes)
    Lecturer/Associate (for practice)
      Lecturer/Associate (for OTC)
        ESPB 6.0 Status elective
        Condition NO
        The goal This course will examine satellite telecommunication and navigations systems.
        The outcome By the end of course the student will have demonstrated the ability to understand the function of satellite system and satellite systems for global navigations (GNSS), and integration GPS and inertial system.
        Contents
        Contents of lectures Introduction-Type of Satellite communication system, Basic link budgets , Orbital mechanics, RF and licensing issue-Modulatiom, multiplexing, multiple acces, Detailed link budgets considerations-Total system performance, Spectrum sharing and, GNSS topics-GPS, Glonass, EGNOS, Galileo, SBAS. Inertial navigations system, Kalman filter and integrations.
        Contents of exercises NO
        Literature
        1. Fundamentals of Astrodynamics and Applications; David A. Valado; Space Technology Library, Second Printing 2004. (Original title)
        2. Gerard Maral, Michel Bousquet; Satellite communications systems, John Wiley&Sons, LTD,NJ 2004. (Original title)
        3. Satellite communications; Timothy Pratt, Charles Bostian , Jeremy Allnut; JohnWiley&Sons, NJ 2003. (Original title)
        4. Pratap Misra and Per Enge, Global positioning system, second edition, Ganga-Jamuna Press, 2006. (Original title)
        5. S. Grewal. Ph.D., PE, at all , “Global positioning systems, Inertial navigations, and Integration”, ISBN 0-471-35032-X, John Wiley & Sons, 2001. (Original title)
        Number of hours per week during the semester/trimester/year
        Lectures Exercises OTC Study and Research Other classes
        3 1 1
        Methods of teaching 30 hours of lectures+ 15 for the exercise. Approximately 60 hours of personal study
        Knowledge score (maximum points 100)
        Pre obligations Points Final exam Points
        Activites during lectures 0 Test paper 60
        Practical lessons 0 Oral examination 0
        Projects 20
        Colloquia 20
        Seminars 0