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synchronization<br />

(clock lock)<br />

The condition achieved when significant transitions of the<br />

recovered data rate clock are phase-stable to within 25<br />

percent of the bit period.<br />

blocked <strong>service</strong> A queued <strong>service</strong> held from scheduling, awaiting (1) the<br />

availability of participating terminals busy with other<br />

<strong>service</strong>s, or (2) the <strong>com</strong>pletion of setting up the path for a<br />

<strong>multi</strong>ple-hop <strong>service</strong>.<br />

building block A fundamental unit of channel time used in determining<br />

time within a frame. Used in the assignment of channel<br />

resources.<br />

burst A time-limited transmission <strong>com</strong>posed of a synchronization<br />

preamble and a finite-length data stream that are formatted<br />

into interleaver block pairs.<br />

burst code A <strong>com</strong>bination of modulation rate, coding rate, and (for<br />

message <strong>service</strong>s) maximum burst size.<br />

burst rate The over-the-air transmission rate (modulation rate) in<br />

symbols per second.<br />

bus The body of a satellite. The bus holds all of the scientific<br />

equipment and other necessary <strong>com</strong>ponents of the satellite.<br />

The bus of a satellite is made of a variety of materials that<br />

are selected to protect the satellite from things like<br />

collisions, a build-up of electric charge, extreme<br />

temperatures, and radiation.<br />

carrier The basic radio, television, or telephony center of frequency<br />

transmit signal. The carrier in an analog signal is<br />

modulated by manipulating its amplitude (making it louder<br />

or softer) or its frequency (shifting it up or down) in relation<br />

to the in<strong>com</strong>ing signal. Satellite carriers operating in the<br />

analog mode are usually frequency modulated.<br />

carrier acquisition The condition achieved when a receiver carrier reference is<br />

coherent in frequency and phase with the receive signal.<br />

carrier frequency The main frequency on which a voice, data, or video signal is<br />

sent. Microwave and SATCOM transmitters operate in the<br />

band from 1- to 14-gigahertz (GHz) (a GHz is one billion<br />

cycles per second).<br />

carrier to noise<br />

ratio<br />

The ratio of the received carrier power and the noise power<br />

in a given bandwidth, expressed in dB. This figure is<br />

directly related to G/T (antenna gain-to-noise temperature<br />

in dB/K) and signal/noise (S/N); and in a video signal the<br />

higher the C/N, the better the received picture.<br />

cassegrain The antenna principle that utilizes a sub-reflector at the<br />

focal point that reflects energy to or from a feed located at<br />

the apex of the main reflector.<br />

channel A frequency band in which a specific broadcast signal is<br />

transmitted. The Federal Communications Commission<br />

specifies channel frequencies in the United States.<br />

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