Satellite communication systems as part of an integrated communications course

Three years honours B.Eng. degree courses are still very popular with Electronic and Electrical Engineering students. Swansea University offer mainly option courses in the final year along with a major (student chosen) project. One of the courses is called `Distributed Control and Integrated Communications´. As with other courses it is a 48 unit (lectures) courses, with 24 being on integrated communications. Satellite communication systems need to be met within this twenty-four unit course. The author outlines the satellite systems content of this course. This covers radio path propagation, space dynamics, disk antenna gain and satellite service prediction