A new Checkout-and-Testing-Equipment (CTE) for a satellite Telemetry using LabVIEW

Author

El-Bayoumi, Abdullah ; Salem, M.A. ; Khalil, Ahmed ; El-Emam, Eman

Author_Institution

Egyptian Space Program, National Authority for Remote, Sensing and Space Sciences, Cairo, Egypt 19765

fYear

2015

fDate

7-14 March 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

9

Abstract

Telemetry is an essential subsystem in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Remote-Sensing satellites, as it is responsible for gathering satellite housekeeping data from all satellite subsystems, malfunction detection, performance evaluation and statistics. In this paper, a novel Checkout-and-Testing-Equipment (CTE) is proposed which simulates the Telemetry interfaces to other satellite subsystems and the Telemetry inputs such as: satellite sensors, and tests the full functionality of the Telemetry software/hardware. Besides, this work models the Telemetry data-acquisition core (Sensors Commutators) using LabVIEW. This new CTE is designed and implemented using LabVIEW and verified using National Instruments (NI) modules such as: NI Virtual Instrument Software Architecture (VISA), NI PXI-6509, NI PXI-6723 and NI PXI-4110. The Telemetry software framework is developed using the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) of C8051f120 Silicon Labs microcontroller.

Keywords

Nickel; Satellites; Sensor systems; Space vehicles; Telemetry; Temperature sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace Conference, 2015 IEEE

Conference_Location

Big Sky, MT

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-5379-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AERO.2015.7119305

Filename

7119305