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Ionospheric Scattering of Satellite Transmissions

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RADIO waves from satellites may fade in both regular and random fashion when received with a linearly polarized aerial. Fading due to Faraday rotation or satellite rotation is an example of the former type. Random fades, up to several per second, are sometimes observed, and these have been attributed to scattering from the same kind of ionospheric irregularities as produce radio star scintillation. This fading is more rapid for satellites than for radio stars since it depends on satellite velocity rather than ionospheric drift velocity. Henceforth we shall be concerned only with the randomly fading component.

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MAWDSLEY, J., RICHARDS, I. Ionospheric Scattering of Satellite Transmissions. Nature 189, 906–907 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/189906a0

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