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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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