關於此課程：How is a satellite built? How do they fly? How do they communicate and how does the network operate? You will get all the answers in this course from teachers and researchers from three schools associated with Institut Mines-Télécom. The course is made of : teaching videos, equipment demonstrations and simulation programs. They will guide you through the discovery of satellite communications. Professionals in the space field will share there vocation for this scientific and technical sector. Have you ever wanted to know more about transponders, the geostationary orbit, QPSK modulation, channel coding, link budget, TCP over large bandwdith x delay product links ? This course is for you! This course is available in English: French-speaking lecturers with English subtitles and fully translated contents (slides, practices). This MOOC is supported by the Patrick and Lina Drahi Foundation.
製作方： Institut Mines-Télécom
教學方： Laurent Franck, Professor
IMT Atlantique, on leave to Airbus Defence & Space as of September 1st, 2017
教學方： Tarik Benaddi, Assistant Professor
IMT Atlantique
教學方： Julien Fasson, Associate Professor
INPT/ENSEEIHT
教學方： Nathalie Thomas, Associate professor
INPT/ENSEEIHT
教學方： Marie-Laure Boucheret, Professor
INPT/ENSEEIHT
| 級別 | 初級 |
| 承諾學習時間 | 6周的学习，一周2-4小时 |
| 語言 | English, 字幕：French |
| 硬件要求 | No hardware is required for this MOOC |
| 如何通過 | 通過所有計分作業以完成課程。 |
| 用戶評分 |
授課大綱
第 1 週
Satellites at our service
This module provides an introduction to satellite communications. Why using satellites ? What sort of communication services ? How much does it cost ?
27 個視頻, 4 個閱讀材料, 7 個練習測驗
- Reading: Let's start!
- 視頻: Learning in six weeks (or more, or less)
- Reading: The course contents in the blink of an eye
- Reading: Getting the most from diverse contents
- Reading: Practicing with the LabVIEW(tm) educational programs
- Practice Quiz: Warm up quiz
- 視頻: Introduction
- 視頻: The conquest
- 視頻: The challenges
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ1-1
- 視頻: Conclusion
- 視頻: Going further: the Van Allen belt
- 視頻: Introduction
- 視頻: The first steps
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ1-2
- 視頻: Communications capacity
- 視頻: Communications satellites today
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ1-3
- 視頻: Conclusion
- 視頻: Going further: communications capacity (the return)
- 視頻: Introduction & strengths of satellites
- 視頻: A variety of services
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ1-4
- 視頻: Conclusion
- 視頻: Going further: positioning in networks
- 視頻: Introduction & navigation
- 視頻: Observation
- 視頻: Conclusion
- 視頻: Going further: space exploration
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ1-5
- 視頻: Introduction & the market players
- 視頻: Economic elements
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ1-6
- 視頻: Conclusion
- 視頻: Nathalie Font - marketing
- 視頻: Remi Lapeyre - spacecraft operations
- 視頻: Common thread: Internet by satellite
已評分: Weekly quiz, WQ1
第 2 週
Satellite and communications
This module describes the overall architecture of a satellite communications system, discusses the concept of orbit and what are the typical sub-systems of a satellite
21 個視頻, 2 個閱讀材料, 6 個練習測驗
- 視頻: A matter of links
- 視頻: System engineering
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ2-1
- 視頻: Laws of a space communication system
- 視頻: Conclusion
- 視頻: Going further: managing multiple access by terminals
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ2-2
- 視頻: Introduction
- 視頻: Overview
- 視頻: Various types of orbit
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ2-3
- 視頻: Relationship between orbit and service
- 視頻: Conclusion
- 視頻: Going further: Kepler lays down the law
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ2-4
- Reading: LabVIEW educational program: orbits
- Reading: LabVIEW educational program: satellite position
- 視頻: Introduction
- 視頻: The platform and its subsystems
- 視頻: Payload: antennas
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ2-5
- 視頻: Payload: repeater
- 視頻: Conclusion
- 視頻: Going further: repeater for mesh architecture
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ2-6
- 視頻: Patricia Iñigo Martinez - system engineering
- 視頻: Nicolas Jacquey - payload engineering
- 視頻: Common thread: Internet by satellite
已評分: Weekly quiz, WQ2
第 3 週
Digital communications
This module discusses the basics of information transmission
18 個視頻, 4 個閱讀材料, 3 個練習測驗
- 視頻: Bit rate
- 視頻: Bit error rate
- 視頻: Conclusion
- Reading: Going further: signal digitization
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ3-1
- 視頻: Introduction
- 視頻: Bit rate / symbol rate
- 視頻: Concept of frequency
- 視頻: Bandwidth occupied by the signal
- 視頻: Bandwidth / rate relation
- 視頻: Carrier transmission
- 視頻: Conclusion
- Reading: Going further: signal shaping
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ3-2
- 視頻: Introduction
- 視頻: Free space propagation
- 視頻: Limited bandwidth
- 視頻: Noise
- 視頻: Conclusion
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ3-3
- Reading: LabVIEW educational program: simple signals
- Reading: LabVIEW educational program: baseband modulation
- 視頻: Mohamed Benseddik - regulatory affairs
- 視頻: Common thread: Internet by satellite
已評分: Weekly quiz, WQ3
第 4 週
Communication techniques
This module covers advanced transmission concepts such as modulation and coding. These operations are the core of a communications system impacting the service performance.
17 個視頻, 4 個閱讀材料, 5 個練習測驗
- 視頻: BPSK modulation
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ4-1
- 視頻: QPSK modulation
- 視頻: QAM modulation
- 視頻: PSK modulation
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ4-2
- 視頻: Demodulation
- 視頻: Bit error rate (BER)
- Practice Quiz: Practice quizz, PQ4-3
- 視頻: Conclusion
- Reading: Going further : I/Q demodulator
- Reading: Going further : APSK modulations
- Reading: LabVIEW educational program: DVB-S2 carrier modulation
- Reading: LabVIEW educational program: signal amplification
- 視頻: Introduction
- 視頻: Repetition Codes
- 視頻: Binary block codes
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ4-4
- 視頻: The coding gain
- 視頻: The impact of the code efficiency on the BER
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ4-5
- 視頻: Conclusion
- 視頻: Bouchra Benammar - research and development
- 視頻: Mathieu Dervin - research and development
- 視頻: Common thread: Internet by satellite
已評分: Weekly quiz, WQ4
第 5 週
Hardware and equipments
This module lists the equipments that take part to the communication chain on ground and how the overall communication performance can be assessed
23 個視頻, 2 個閱讀材料, 7 個練習測驗
- 視頻: Light terminals
- 視頻: Portable, transportable and fixed terminals
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ5-1
- 視頻: Mobile terminals
- 視頻: Conclusion
- 視頻: Going further: functioning of an antenna with automatic pointing
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ5-2
- 視頻: Introduction
- 視頻: Antennas
- Reading: Going further: everything you wanted to know about antennas ...
- 視頻: RF elements
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ5-3
- 視頻: Frequency conversion and modems
- 視頻: Interconnection with Earth
- 視頻: Other aspects
- 視頻: Conclusion
- 視頻: Going further: monitoring the health of the satellite
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ5-4
- 視頻: Introduction
- 視頻: Analog link budget
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ5-5
- 視頻: The noise component
- 視頻: The end-to-end budget
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ5-6
- 視頻: Digital link budget
- 視頻: Conclusion & Going further: other factors in the link budget
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ5-7
- Reading: LabVIEW educational program: single link budget
- 視頻: Cynthia Fontana - satellite transmissions
- 視頻: Hervé Gaudefroy - products and services development
- 視頻: Internet by satellite
已評分: Weekly quiz, WQ5
第 6 週
Networking and services
This module explains how services such as voice, television and Internet access are provided by means of communications satellites.
20 個視頻, 8 個練習測驗
- 視頻: Before the Internet
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ6-1
- 視頻: Internet and the notion of network
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ6-2
- 視頻: Interconnection and interoperability: a real issue
- 視頻: The notion of protocol
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ6-3
- 視頻: Going further: Internet Protocol and the hourglass
- 視頻: From analog to digital
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ6-4
- 視頻: DVB-S
- 視頻: Evolutions
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ6-5
- 視頻: Independent systems
- 視頻: Globalstar vs Iridium
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ6-6
- 視頻: Interconnection with mobile telephony networks
- 視頻: Voice over IP
- 視頻: Going further: Impact of a satellite link on QoS
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ6-7
- 視頻: What are we talking about?
- 視頻: Need for a return link
- 視頻: IP over satellite: the challenges
- Practice Quiz: Practice quiz, PQ6-8
- 視頻: Sandrine Lafont - ground segments and services
- 視頻: Alain Frizon - satellite programme
- 視頻: Common thread: Internet by satellite
已評分: Weekly quiz, WQ6
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製作方
Institut Mines-Télécom
Institut Mines-Télécom is a public institution dedicated to higher education, research and innovation in engineering and digital technologies.
Always attentive to the economic world, IMT combines strong academic legitimacy, close corporate relations. It focuses on key transformations in Digital Technologies, Production, Energy and Ecology and trains the engineers, managers and PhDs who will be tomorrow’s players in these key changes of the 21st century.
Its activities are conducted in Mines and Télécom graduate schools under the aegis of the Minister for Industry and Electronic Communication, one subsidiary school and three strategic partners. The IMT’s schools rank among the leading graduate schools in France.
評分和審閱
With subtitles (as the audio is only in French) it is difficult to pay attention to the texts and diagrams on screen as one is busy reading the subtitles.
This is the best course for beginners.
First of all, I found the course really interesting and fun. It has helped me develop new insights in to the world of satellites and how our day to day activities are supported by them. Now i would like to mention some areas of future improvement.
First, more numericals should be included where ever they are required.
Second, lecture slides should be made available for reference. Although I understand students are encouraged to make notes, but for quick future reference, lecture slides are always helpful.
Third, the Last week by Julien should have been more detailed and systematic. I got confused while attempting the last week quiz. Even after revisiting the videos my confusion has not cleared.
Thats more or less it. I would like to thank the entire team for creating this wonderful course. I look forward to many more offerings in the future.
This course was really good but there were lot of contents in a single video.