June 2014
Beginner
846 pages
27h 29m
English
Content preview from Satellite Technology: Principles and Applications, 3rd Edition
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Index
- A3E system
- ABL system
- Accelerometer
- ACeS (Asia cellular satellite)
- Access track scanner, see optical mechanical scanner
- Active altitude control
- Active remote sensing
- Active sensors (Remote sensing satellites)
- Non-scanning sensors
- Scanning sensors
- Active thermal control
- Adaptive delta modulator
- Adjacent channel interference
- Advanced microwave sounding unit (AMSU)
- Aerial remote sensing
- Aerostat system
- Airship
- Applications
- Components of
- Free balloon
- Helikite
- Moored balloon
- PAGEOS
- Tethered balloon
- Types of
- Vega-1/2
- Akatsuki orbiter
- Almaz commercial programme
- ALOHA
- Slotted ALOHA
- Amplitude modulation
- Different forms
- Frequency spectrum
- Noise
- Power
- Amplitude phase shift keying
- Analogue pulse communication systems
- Pulse amplitude modulation
- Pulse position modulation
- Pulse width modulation
- Anatomy (Launch vehicles)
- Liquid fuelled engine
- Solid fuelled engine
- Stages
- Anik-A
- Anik-B
- Anik-C
- Anik-D
- Anik-E
- Anik-F
- Anik-G
- Antenna gain-to-noise temperature (G/T) ratio
- Antenna noise temperature
- Ground noise
- Sky noise
- Antenna parameters
- Aperture
- Bandwidth
- Beam width
- EIRP
- Gain
- Polarization
- Antennas
- Parameters
- Types
- Antenna types
- Helical antenna
- Horn antenna
- Lens antenna
- Phased array antenna
- Reflector antennas
- Apogee
- Apogee distance
- Applications (Military satellites)
- Applications (Navigation satellites)
- Civilian applications
- Military applications
- Applications (Remote sensing satellites)
- CHAMP (Challenging mini-satellite payload)
- Deforestation
- Disaster prediction ...
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