A new propagation campaign in tropical areas: the Ka-band Propagation experiment over India with the GSAT-4 satellite
Conference: EuCAP 2009 - 3rd European Conference on Antennas and Propagation
03/23/2009 - 03/27/2009 at Berlin, Germany
Proceedings: EuCAP 2009
Pages: 5Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Dasgupta, K. S.; Charania, A.; Shukla, A.; Acharya, R. (SAC-ISRO, Ahmedabad, India)
Bandyopadhyay, K. (IIT, Kharagpur, India)
Castanet, L.; Lemorton, J.; Carrie, G. (ONERA, DEMR, Toulouse, France)
Lacoste, F.; Taisant, J. P.; Carvalho, F. (CNES, Toulouse, France)
Abstract:
An opportunity has been proposed recently by the Space Applications Center (SAC) of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) to carry out a propagation experiment at Ka-band over India. To this purpose, the GSAT-4 satellite will board two propagation beacons at 20.2 GHz and 30.5 GHz in linear polarization. The objective of this paper is to present the GSAT-4 propagation experiment. In a first part, the main objectives of the campaign are described. Afterwards, a presentation of the specifications of the propagation beacons to be boarded on GSAT-4 are given. Finally, the ground segment with all instruments planned to be distributed over India during the campaign are detailed and illustrated with an example of link budget.