This section provides several tutorials on Satellite Communications, including satellite systems, link budgeting, satellite pointing angle calculator, and other related topics.

The article provides a guide for link power budgeting in satcom. Link budgeting is a term used to estimate the size and electrical parameters required for various satellite system components such as antenna, high power amplifier (HPA), LNC, satellite dish etc. Check out the full tutorial there.

The tool provides satellite look angles after inputting the ground station longitude and latitude. The pointing angles are required to orient the earth station antenna towards the satellite for proper reception of the signals.

Satellite phones, as the name implies, uses satellite signals to operate, where as conventional cellular phones use terrestrial signals from cell towers to communicate. Relatively, satellite phones are expensive when compared with other types of phones, however satellite phones have wide geographical foot print and could be used where terrestrial signals are unavailable or not feasible.