The equations of motion derived in this paper are aimed to determine according to the post-Newtonian framework the relative motion of Earth satellites with respect to inertial guided space Acquisition, Pointing and Tracking systems. The equations are suitable for satellites that are even far from the systems. The tool used to derive them is Synge’s world-function for the Earth surrounding space...

Mobile satellite antennas are gimbal-mounted with an active control system to keep the antenna pointed at the target satellite. Short time-scale antenna stabilization is achieved with gyroscope feedback. Long time-scale tracking of the satellite is maintained by scanning the antenna: The beam is intentionally nutated and the resulting change in signal strength is used to estimate how well the a...

Wildlife telemetry research has expanded greatly in the last 2 decades, with the application of satellite tracking and archival logging technologies to study the ecology and conservation of marine mammals, birds, fishes, and turtles. Widespread and expanding use of satellite tracking to study movements and habitats of marine megavertebrates warrants a review of progress to date and a discussion...

Designing a robust tracking control for a non-linear MIMO system with uncertainty is one of the most complicated control problems. In this paper, sliding mode changed to non-linear controllable canonical form by input-output linearization. This, sliding surfaces can be defined in a way that we can de-couple equations and indicate the sliding conditions of multi-variable controller system. The u...

This paper presents a novel electrical polarization tracking method for mobile satellite communication systems that use linear polarization. It consists of two main technologies; the first estimates the mobile station antenna’s relative polarization angle against that of the satellite’s onboard antenna, the second forms counter polarization against the estimated value. We use a Ku-band communic...