The paper deals with the statistical characterization of mobile satellite channel, and introduces a statistical channel model-the Shadowing Rician Fading model for frequency nonselective land mobile satellite channel. The parameters contained in the model are given by means of trial and error. Based on the model, the BER(Bit Error Ratio)performance is analyzed for narrow-band modulation and wide-band spread -spectrum modulation of coherent PSK (Phase Shift Keying) signals. The results show that the multipath and fading phenomenon in the channels worsens the system bit error performance, while the use of wide band spread spectrum modulation can improve it efficiently. In addition, an analytical expression is derived for the irreducible probability of bit error of coherent PSK signals due to phase variations caused by fading and shadowing. At last, the numerical results are obtained and discussed.