ESSENTIAL GUIDE
Satcom Fundamentals: The Essential Guide
The satellite industry is growing fast, and many of the people joining
it come from RF, telecom, software or defence without the complete
groundwork in how satellites actually work. Orbital Research has compiled the fundamentals of satcom into a single extensive and complete guide.
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Explore topics including:
- Why an orbit is continuous free fall, and how altitude sets a satellite’s speed, period and coverage
- What defines GEO, MEO, LEO, polar and sun-synchronous orbits, and why Starlink chose LEO
- Kepler’s laws, Hohmann transfers and why delta-v is the currency of space
- The satellite spectrum from L-band to V-band, including the 5G reallocation of North American C-band
- Bent-pipe vs regenerative payloads, and the VSAT network topologies built on them
- How orbit choice drives range, path loss, Doppler and the link budget