"The course comprises 16, 45-minute sessions, concluding with an on-line multiple-choice question (MCQ) examination in the final session. Lecture 1: Class introductions. General introduction to the course. The role that satellites play in society. Examples of satellite applications. Lecture 2: Constellations: Orbital Dynamics; Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion; Newton’s Law of Gravitation; Satellite Orbital Design parameters. Lecture 3: Classification and characterization of orbits; medium earth orbit; low earth orbit (LEO); geostationary orbit. Orbital period. Round-trip delay. Satellite network architecture. Lecture 4: Systems and Applications: Mobile Satellite Systems, Networks and Applications including `little` and `big` LEO constellations. Fixed and Portable Systems: VSAT Networks. Lecture 5: Basic units of measure: dB, dBW, dBm, dBkHz, dBWm-2; Operating Frequency bands. Fundamental transmission theory; antenna characterization: beam-width, boresight, azimuth, elevation. Lecture 6: Link Budget Design Part 1: free space loss, power flux density, figure-of-merit (G/T), noise power. Lecture 7: Link Budget Design Part 2: Carrier to noise ratio; energy-per-bit to noise density ratio; quality of service; end-to-end link design. Lecture 8: Link Budget Design Part 3: Worked link budget examples, which are used to reinforce the concepts developed in Lectures 6 and 7. Lecture 9: Mobile Propagation Environment including empirical and statistical representations; fade margin. Lecture 10: Fixed Propagation Environment; depolarization; rain fade; atmospheric attenuation; outage probability."