Solar Outage Angle Calculator | Sun outage Calculator

This page of converters and calculators section covers Solar outage angle calculator. The sun outage angle equation used for this sun outage calculator is also mentioned. This sun outage calculator takes beamwidth, downlink frequency and diameter of antenna as input and provides sun outage angle as output.

Sun outage calculator EXAMPLE:
Inputs:
Beamwidth (Input-1) = 3 dB,
Satellite Downlink Frequency (Input-2)= 12.5 GHz,
Antenna Diameter (Input-3) = 1.8 meters
Output:
Sun outage angle = 0.711 degrees

Sun outage angle calculator Equation

The figure depicts satellite, sun and earth and relation of outage angle. The figure shows solar outage angle.

Following equation or formula is used for Sun outage angle calculator.

This satellite sun outage calculator is very useful in the area of satellite communication.

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