Satellite Communications

This is the best book for those students who are pursuing MS (Electrical Engineering) and they were not in touch of study for last couple of years due to either they were working or some another reason.Because 1 and 2 chapter of this book will give you a very nice review of your previous study after that you can understand this course very well.

the only thing I will mention is the packing can be improved. the book hard cover was damaged due to the poor packing. there should be some protection for the book, book was in the regular envelope without any protection.

The book met all of my expectations. Thank you a lot!!

Very up-to-date with the latest technologies in Sat Comm. Very great reference and a must use for beginners and practicing engineers.

It was basically brand new and served it's purpose for this awesome Sat Comm class with STK software ;)The read was great and I found no problems on any page in the book.

The book met all my expectations. I have the first addition and took the course at a Masters level in 1990 from Dr. Pratt. I was considering buying the second addition. As an engineer this book has become a valuable reference and has stood the test of time giving me a true appreciation of the technology involved in getting a good signal from a geosynchronous satellite with a 4 Watt transmitter to a tiny dish on my house 22,320 miles away.

I recently took a Satellite Communications course at the university I attend and this was the textbook. I must say this book is really expensive for what you're likely to get out of it; as the book doesn't really seem to have much of a point. It isn't very well written/edited for a book you would want to learn the subject matter from if you didn't know anything about satellite communications; and it doesn't include enough usable, pertinent data for keeping as a reference book for experienced users. Mostly the book explains concepts in a convoluted and confusing manner, doesn't fully explain them, or adds all sorts of extraneous material not explained in the book into the review sections (which we used as some of our assignments). If you like taking Microsoft computer certification tests, enjoy brain-teasers and riddles, you're already an electrical engineer/astrophysics major with a few years experience, or your last name is "Hawking" you may find this to be a good book. But, if you know little to nothing about satellite communications (orbital mechanics, transmission encoding methods, frequency spectrums, theory of radio transmissions, etc.) my suggestion is look for another book on the subject and get this one from your local library. If you MUST buy this book like I did, do yourself a favor by getting it 'Used' and save yourself some money. By the way, I was told this book is no longer used for this course for some of these same reasons.