TLEN-5350 (3) Commercial Spaceflight Operations and Communications

Aimed at a high level fundamental understanding of broadcasting, communication and navigation satellite systems. Topics include orbital mechanics, orbit selection, spacecraft subsystems, spacecraft and earth station configurations, propagation issues, link budgets, modulation and multiplexing techniques, multiple access schemes (FDMA, TDMA, CDMA), error control coding, satellite network architecture, and economic, regulatory and business issues in Geo, Meo, and Leo systems. Requisites: Requires corequisite course of TLEN 5330. Restricted to students with 87-180 credits (Senior) or graduate students in the College of Engineering or Leeds School of Business only.