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Embodiments provide systems, devices, and methods for determining acquisition guard times and acquisition control parameters or distance metrics for terminals in a satellite communication network using triangulation and single terminal ranging. A terminal or multiple terminals from the network may be selected as ranging terminals; the terminals may include normal user terminals used for determining a satellite position or a satellite distance. Ranging terminals may first enter a network and synchronize to TDMA frame timing by adjusting the acquisition control parameters. An adjusted acquisition control parameter may also be called a transmit timing control parameter. A satellite position or a distance difference between a real-time and a nominal satellite position may be estimated from timing control parameters. Information about the satellite position and/or the distance difference in satellite position may then be used to reduce acquisition guard times for other terminals using various techniques to compute acquisition control parameters.

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