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Method of determining the coordinates of the radio signal source in satellite communication systems

Authors

R.S. Blumberg, V.V. Sukhotin, O.I. Sizykh

Organization

Siberian Federal University
Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation

Abstract

Telecommunications have penetrated deeply into all spheres of human activity. Due to the use of digital technologies, it has become possible to transmit and receive information of various kinds in one stream (not separately). Three geostationary satellites are sufficient to provide data transmission from anywhere in the world to another point using artificial Earth satellites. Data transmission systems using the satellite should contain at least two Earth Stations and a repeater of the communication satellite. There are no means of combating any types of artificial interference in the Earth Stations equipment. The jammer, an illegitimate user, can emit a signal from any point in space within a telecommunications satellite system. The paper provides an analysis of existing methods for determining the coordinates of a radio signal source, describes a method for determining the coordinates of an radio signal source (illegitimate user) in satellite telecommunications systems using a geostationary spacecraft. The development was based on a three-position virtual antenna array, the positions of which determined the base of an irregular tetrahedron, and the radio signal source itself was its vertex. In the course of the solution, canonical equations of straight lines in space were compiled, at the intersection point of which the source of the radio signal is located. The coordinates of the radio signal source were the roots of the system, when finding the unit vectors lying on these lines.

Keywords

virtual antenna array, geostationary orbit, stationary radio signal source, system of linear equations

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For citing this article

Blumberg R.S., Sukhotin V.V., Sizykh O.I. Method of determining the coordinates of the radio signal source in satellite communication systems // Spacecrafts & Technologies, 2023, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 60-67. doi: 10.26732/j.st.2023.1.07

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