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Propagation Delay

Propagation delay is the time it takes for a signal to travel from an Earth transmitting station to a satellite and back to an Earth receiving station. The delay is calculated based on the speed of light and the satellite's orbital speed, which depends on its altitude. For a GEO satellite orbiting at an altitude of 22,240 miles, the uplink delay is approximately 0.119 seconds, the downlink delay is also approximately 0.119 seconds, and the total round-trip delay is approximately 0.48 seconds.

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Propagation Delay

Propagation delay is the time it takes for a signal to travel from an Earth transmitting station to a satellite and back to an Earth receiving station. The delay is calculated based on the speed of light and the satellite's orbital speed, which depends on its altitude. For a GEO satellite orbiting at an altitude of 22,240 miles, the uplink delay is approximately 0.119 seconds, the downlink delay is also approximately 0.119 seconds, and the total round-trip delay is approximately 0.48 seconds.

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3 GEO satellite – propagation delay

Propagation delay is considered to be the time the signal takes to travel from the Earth
transmitting station to the Earth Receiving station where the signal encounters an uplink
and downlink way.
In order to calculate the propagation delay, we have to take the light speed of into
account. This speed reaches up to 186.282 miles/s or 299.762 Km/s.
The speed orbital of the satellite depends on the altitude above the Earth. In particular,
the speed of the orbital required to maintain at the orbit is 22.240 miles or 35.790 Kms.
In other words, when we divide the orbital speed over the light speed, we can obtain the
delay for both uplink and downlink. Uplink delay or downlink delay approximately 0.119
sec and total of delay for both uplink and downlink one way approximately 240. Total
round-trip 480ms.

Figure 1.5 propagation delays (Uplink and downlink)

As illustrated from Figure 1.5, the signal moves from the Transmitting Earth station to
the satellite and from the satellite to the Receiving Earth station (Uplink and downlink).

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