Principles of satellite communications keplers laws johannes kepler 1571 1630 the astronomical scientist gave 3 revolutionary laws regarding the motion earth orbits a satellite when launched into space needs to be placed in a certain orbit to provide a particular way geosynchronous . This text was required for a college course in satellite communications this book is one of the best at explaining satellite operations and space communications principles i used the wertz larson smad book in previous classes and was puzzled by its explanation of several space communications concepts such as eirp and power flux density. Explains the reasons limitations and trade offs inherent tocommunications satellites the first half deals with link powerbudgets as well as communications hardware and examples of completelink budgets spacecraft technology and a description of theobjectives and basic operating methods of each of the majorsupporting subsystems are covered in the last half. Principles of communications satellites item preview remove circle share or embed this item embed embed for wordpresscom hosted blogs and archiveorg item description tags want more advanced embedding details examples and help no favorite share