TT&C system for the ALMASat-EO microsatellite platform

Author

Cinarelli, Davide ; Tortora, P.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Bologna, Forli, Italy

fYear

2012

fDate

2-5 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The microsatellite ALMASat-EO is the next generation of ALMASat satellites series; the first one called ALMASat-1 was successfully launched on-board the VEGA Maiden Flight on February 13^th, 2012. The Tracking, Telemetry and Command (TT&C) system is a vital subsystem of the spacecraft, performing the bidirectional link for telemetry transmission and commands reception. A low-cost and low-power communication system based on a System-on-a-Chip RF transceiver, was designed and tested at the Forlì campus of the University of Bologna. The mission requirements, architectural design and operational software are thoroughly described, together with the result of a test campaign.

Keywords

radio transceivers; satellite links; satellite telemetry; satellite tracking; system-on-chip; ALMASat satellites series; ALMASat-1; ALMASat-EO microsatellite platform; TT&C system; VEGA maiden flight; architectural design; bidirectional link; commands reception; low-cost communication system; low-power communication system; microsatellite ALMASat-EO; mission requirements; operational software; spacecraft; system-on-a-chip RF transceiver; telemetry transmission; tracking, telemetry and command system; Bandwidth; Downlink; Microcontrollers; Power demand; RF signals; Radio frequency; Transceivers; COTS; Earth Observation; System-on-a-Chip communication; TT&C; microsatellite platform;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Satellite Telecommunications (ESTEL), 2012 IEEE First AESS European Conference on

Conference_Location

Rome

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4687-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-4686-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ESTEL.2012.6400183

Filename

6400183