SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS AN OVERVIEW (DOC)

EBook Description: The outer space has always fascinated people on the earth and communication through space evolved as an offshoot of ideas for space travel. The earliest idea of using artificial satellites for communications is found in a science fiction Brick Moon by Edward Evert Hale, published in 1869-70. While the early fictional accounts of satellite and space communications bear little resemblance to the technology as it exists to day, they are of significance since they represent the origins of the idea from which the technology eventually evolved.

The satellite communication industry has grown tremendously since the first edition of this text, and with it the number of professionals and the range of activities have grown as well.

Satellite navigation Overview

Satellite navigation is a leading-edge technology which allows anyone with a receiver to
determine their position very accurately at any time by picking up signals from a constellation of several satellites. Currently, the United States Global Positioning System (GPS) and the Russian GLONASS system are the only operational Satellite navigation systems.

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