Communications Satellite Handbook
by Walter Morgan & Gary Gordon

Finally, a book with the material needed to analyze, design and use a satellite system for telecommunications. With this book, system designers, earth station operators, design engineers and students can understand how satellites function, and how they are used in ordinary service for voice, video, and data communications.

The book has graphs, tables and illustrations to enable the user to solve problems and then verify the answers by cross checking with alternate solutions. The formulas have been designed for use with scientific calculators or personal computers.

This book will provide you with:

* Identification of communications applications
* The basic equations that govern the satellites and their uses
* Descriptions of actual equipment used both in space and on the ground
* What radio frequencies are used, with specific frequency assignments
* How to calculate link budgets
* How a satellite is launched and gets to its proper position
* How it is kept there, and the amount of fuel needed
* How to find the angles to point an earth station antenna
* What are reliability models
* How should the transmission system operate & how it can be checked
* What traffic levels should be anticipated

This book supplements other texts. It is an excellent bridge between theory and practical experience. It is a basic reference book for both the student and the experienced professional. A comprehensive index allows the reader to find material quickly.

Principles of Communications Satellites
by Gary Gordon & Walter Morgan

Providing comprehensive descriptions of communications satellite performance, this authoritative text emphasizes satellite hardware as well as its technical requirements and unites information never before available in a single classroom reference.

Principles of Communications Satellites begins each subject with a complete overview, and then provides in-depth coverage complete with graphs and equations. The first half of the text covers link power budgets, clearly summarizing the RF power available from an earth station through a communications satellite and then back to another earth station - the key to a complete analysis determining the antenna diameter and the transmitter power in the satellite and earth stations.

The second half of Principles of Communications Satellites details the hardware in a communications satellite. Separate chapters present the objectives and basic operating techniques of every major supporting subsystem. The principles of each subsystem in a communication s satellite are explained clearly in complete detail - illustrating how testing and reliability analysis allow satellites to operate for years without maintenance.

Featuring exercises and questions on each topic, Principles of Communications Satellites brings the entire field of communications satellite performance into focus like no other single work.