ITU Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics

UZB 451E – Spacecraft Communications

2021 – 2022 Spring Semester
Homework #2
for CRN 22524
May 24, 2022
Instructor: Asst. Prof. Ramazan Yeniçeri (Room# 232B)
Assistant: Sezer Memiş (ITUARC)

Solutions should be submitted till 23:59 on May 31 st 2022, Tuesday. Prepare a PDF file that consists of your
answers. You can get 15 points in total.

Question 1 (3 points): A geostationary satellite provides service to a region, which can be covered
by the beam of an antenna on the satellite with a beamwidth of 2.3°. The satellite carries
transponders for Ku-band and Ka-band, with separate antennas for transmit and receive. For center
frequencies of 14.5/11.0 and 29.5/19.5 GHz, determine the diameters of the four antennas on the
satellite.
a) Find the diameters of the two transmitting antennas. Specify the diameter and calculate the
gain at each frequency.
b) Find the diameters of the two receiving antennas. Specify the diameter and calculate the
gain at each frequency.

Question 2 (3 points): An earth station antenna has a circular aperture with a diameter of 6.5 m and
an aperture efficiency of 68% at 18.6 GHz.
a) Calculate the gain of this antenna and estimate its beamwidth.
b) The aperture efficiency of the antenna is 64% at a frequency of 29.0 GHz. Calculate the gain
of this antenna and estimate its beamwidth at 29 GHz.

Question 3 (3 points): Calculate the path loss for a satellite to earth down link with a distance of
38500 km at a frequency of 4.0 GHz. What is the uplink path loss if the earth station transmits to
the same satellite at a frequency of 6.0 GHz?

Question 4 (3 points): A LEO satellite at an altitude of 400 km has a distance to a receiving

terminal of 500 km. The satellite radiates a power of 1.0 W from a spot beam antenna with a gain of
35 dB in the direction of the terminal. Find the flux density at the receiving terminal, and the power
received with a tracking antenna with a gain of 30 dB.

Question 5 (3 points): A Ku-band DBS-TV receiving terminal has an antenna with a gain of 34 dB
at 12.5 GHz. The noise temperature of the receiver under clear air conditions is 80 K.
a) Calculate the G/T ratio of the terminal in dB.
b) If the same reflector is used for reception of a Ka-band DBS-TV signal at 21 GHz, and the
terminal has a noise temperature of 200 K at this frequency, what is the terminal G/T ratio,
in dB.

Good luck!

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