High rate communications systems for CubeSats

Author

Palo, Scott E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Aerosp. Eng. Sci., Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA

fYear

2015

fDate

17-22 May 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Small Satellites and especially CubeSat have received significant attention recently. The development of secondary launch systems to provide a reasonably priced ride to space has increased the number of small satellites in orbit. Recent subsystem developments have also supported this revolution. One area that has been slow to develop is high rate communications. Early CubeSat systems were built on the amateur satellite service, but the available data rates are low. Efforts are evolving to develop high rate CubeSat transceivers. This paper will provide an overview of current CubeSat communication systems capabilities in addition to details about an effort to develop a high rate CubeSat communication system that is compatible with the NASA Near Earth Network. The system includes a 200kbps S-Band receiver and a 12.5Mbps X-Band transmitter.

Keywords

artificial satellites; radio transceivers; satellite communication; CubeSat communication systems; NASA Near Earth Network; S-band receiver; X-band transmitter; high rate CubeSat transceivers; high rate communications systems; secondary launch systems; small satellites; subsystem developments; Earth; FCC; Orbits; Radio spectrum management; Resource management; Transmitters; Uplink; Downlink; Radio transmitters; Satellite communication; Satellites;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium (IMS), 2015 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2015.7167152

Filename

7167152