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Faraday Fading of Earth Satellite Signals

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THE rate of fading of Earth satellite signals caused by the ionospheric Faraday effect was used by British workers1,2 to make estimates of the integrated electron content of the ionosphere up to the height of the satellite. The values obtained were, however, apparently too high. A possible reason for this is failure to take into account the radial velocity component of the satellite which, for certain portions of the orbit, can cause an appreciable contribution to the fading.

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  1. Staff of the Mullard Radio Observatory, Nature, 180, 879 (1957).

  2. Burgess, B., Proc. Inst. Elect. Eng., Part B, 105, 112 (1958).

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    FRED B. DANIELS & SIEGFRIED J. BAUER

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DANIELS, F., BAUER, S. Faraday Fading of Earth Satellite Signals. Nature 182, 599 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/182599a0

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