2.Explain About Various Orbital Elements in Detail
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SATELLITE COMMUNICATION UNIT I OVERVIEW OF SATELLITE SYSTEMS, ORBITS AND LAUNCHING METHODS Introduction – Frequency allocations for satellite services – Intelsat – U.S domsats – Polar orbiting satellites – Problems – Kepler’s first law – Kepler’s second law – Kepler’s third law – Definitions of terms for earth – Orbiting satellites – Orbital elements – Apogee and perigee heights – Orbital perturbations – Effects of a non-spherical earth – Atmospheric drag – Inclined orbits – Calendars – Universal time – Julian dates – Sidereal time – The orbital plane – The geocentric – Equatorial coordinate system – Earth station referred to the IJK frame – The topcentric – Horizon co-ordinate system – The subsatellite point – Predicting satellite position. PART A 1. What is Satellite? Mention the types. An artificial body that is projected from earth to orbit either earth (or) another body of solar systems. Types: Information satellites and Communication Satellites 2. State Kepler’s first law. It states that the path followed by the satellite around the primary will be an ellipse. An ellipse has two focal points F1 and F2. The center of mass of the two body system, termed the barycenter is always centered on one of the foci. e = [square root of ( a2– b2) ] / a 3. State Kepler’s second law. It states that for equal time intervals, the satellite will sweep out equal areas in its orbital plane, focused at the barycenter. 4. State Kepler’s third law. It states that the square of the periodic time of orbit is perpendicular to the cube of the mean distance between the two bodies. a3= 3 / n2 Where, n = Mean motion of the satellite in rad/sec. 3 = Earth’s geocentric gravitational constant. With the n in radians per sec. the orbital period in second is given by,P = 27 / n 5. Define Inclination. The angle between the orbital plane and the earth’s equatorial plane. It is measured at the ascending node from the equator to the orbit going from east to north. 6. Define mean anomaly and true anomaly. Mean anomaly gives an average bvalue of the angular position of the satellite with reference to the perigee. True anomaly is the angle from perigee to the satellite position, measured at the earth’s center 7. Mention the apogee and perigee height. r a = a(1+e) r p = a(1+e) h a = r a – R p h p = r p – R p 8. What is meant by azimuth angle? It is defined as the angle produced by intersection of local horizontal plane and the plane passing through the earth station, the satellite and center of earth. 9. Give the 3 different types of applications with respect to satellite systems. • The largest international system (Intelsat) • The domestic satellite system (Dom sat) in U.S. • U.S. National oceanographic and atmospheric administrations (NOAA) 10. Mention the 3 regions to allocate the frequency for satellite services. • Region1: It covers Europe, Africa and Mangolia • Region2: It covers North & South Ameriaca and Greenland. • Region3: It covers Asia, Australia and South West Pacific. 11. Give the types of satellite services. • Fixed satellite service • Broadcasting satellite service • Mobile satellite service • Navigational satellite services • Meteorological satellite services 12. What is mean by Dom sat? Domestic Satellites. These are used for voice, data and video transmissions within the country. These are launched by GSLV vehicles. They are designed in a manner to continuously monitor the region. 13. What is mean by INTELSAT? International Telecommunication Satellite. It’s a constellation of 17 satellites from U.S and European union. It serves as basis for GPS coordinates all over the world. 14. What is mean by SARSAT? Search and rescue satellite. They are kind of remote sensing satellites, are useful to find the particular location during catastrophe periods. 15. Define polar-orbiting satellites. Polar orbiting satellites orbit the earth in such a way as to cover the north and south polar regions. 16. Give the advantage of geostationary orbit. There is no necessity for tracking antennas to find the satellite positions. They are able to monitor the particular place continuously without the necessity in change of coordinates. 17. Define look angles. The azimuth and elevation angles of the ground station antenna are termed as look angles. 18. Write short notes on station keeping. It is the process of maintenance of satellite’s attitude against different factors that can cause drift with time. Satellites need to have their orbits adjusted from time to time, because the satellite is initially placed in the correct orbit, natural forces induce a progressive drift. 19. What are the geostationary satellites? The satellites present in the geostationary orbit are called geostationary satellite. The geostationary orbit is one in which the satellite appears stationary relative to the earth. It lies in equatorial plane and inclination is ‘0’. The satellite must orbit the earth in the same direction as the earth spin. The orbit is circular. 20. What is sun transit outage. The sun transit is nothing but the sun comes within the beam width of the earth station antenna. During this period the sun behaves like an extremely noisy source and it blanks out all the signal from the satellite. This effect is termed as sun transit outage. PART B 1.Explain about kepler laws in detail Kepler's laws are: 1. The orbit of every planet is an ellipse with the Sun at one of the two foci. 2. A line joining a planet and the Sun sweeps out equal areas during equal intervals of time. 3. The square of the orbital period of a planet is directly proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis of its orbit. Kepler's laws are strictly only valid for a lone (not affected by the gravity of other planets) zero- mass object orbiting the Sun; a physical impossibility. Nevertheless, Kepler's laws form a useful starting point to calculating the orbits of planets that do not deviate too much from these restrictions. Fir st Law "The orbit of every planet is an ellipse with the Sun at one of the two foci." Figure 1: Kepler's first law placing the Sun at the focus of an elliptical orbit An ellipse is a particular class of mathematical shapes that resemble a stretched out circle. (See the figure to the right.) Note as well that the Sun is not at the center of the ellipse but is at one of the focal points. The other focal point is marked with a lighter dot but is a point that has no physical significance for the orbit. Ellipses have two focal points neither of which are in the center of the ellipse (except for the one special case of the ellipse being a circle). Circles are a special case of an ellipse that are not stretched out and in which both focal points coincide at the center. Symbolically an ellipse can be represented in polar coordinates as: where (r, θ) are the polar coordinates (from the focus) for the ellipse, p is the semi-latus rectum, and ε is the eccentricity of the ellipse. For a planet orbiting the Sun then r is the distance from the Sun to the planet and θ is the angle with its vertex at the Sun from the location where the planet is closest to the Sun. At θ = 0°, perihelion, the distance is minimum At θ = 90° and at θ = 270°, the distance is At θ = 180°, aphelion, the distance is maximum The semi-major axis a is the arithmetic mean between rmin and rmax: so The semi-minor axis b is the geometric mean between rmin and rmax: so The semi-latus rectum p is the harmonic mean between rmin and rmax: The eccentricity ε is the coefficient of variation between rmin and rmax: The area of the ellipse is 2 The special case of a circle is ε = 0, resulting in r = p = rmin = rmax = a = b and A = π r . Second law Figure 3: Illustration of Kepler's second law. "A line joining a planet and the Sun sweeps out equal areas during equal intervals of time." The planet moves faster near the Sun, so the same area is swept out in a given time as at larger distances, where the planet moves more slowly. The green arrow represents the planet's velocity, and the purple arrows represents the force on the planet. To understand the second law let us suppose a planet takes one day to travel from point A to point B. The lines from the Sun to points A and B, together with the planet orbit, will define an (roughly triangular) area. This same area will be covered every day regardless of where in its orbit the planet is. Now as the first law states that the planet follows an ellipse, the planet is at different distances from the Sun at different parts in its orbit. So the planet has to move faster when it is closer to the Sun so that it sweeps an equal area. Kepler's second law is equivalent to the fact that the force perpendicular to the radius vector is zero. The "areal velocity" is proportional to angular momentum, and so for the same reasons, Kepler's second law is also in effect a statement of the conservation of angular momentum. Symbolically: where is the "areal velocity". This is also known as the law of equal areas. It also applies for parabolic trajectories and hyperbolic trajectories. Third law "The square of the orbital period of a planet is directly proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis of its orbit." The third law, published by Kepler in 1619 [1] captures the relationship between the distance of planets from the Sun, and their orbital periods.