Automated and remote controlled ground station of Masat-1, the first Hungarian satellite

Author

Dudas, Levente ; Papay, Levente ; Seller, Rudolf

Author_Institution

Dept. of Broadband Infocommunications & Electromagn. Theor., Budapest Univ. of Technol. & Econ., Budapest, Hungary

fYear

2014

fDate

15-16 April 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In 2007, a group of students at Budapest University of Technology and Economics had decided to realize the first Hungarian satellite, called Masat-1. In 2012, Masat-1 was launched from French Guyana by VEGA maiden flight (the first really own rocket of European Space Agency - ESA) to an elliptical orbit. Nowadays, Masat-1 is still working, although the planned lifetime was only 3 months. Our aim was to develop a fully automated and remote controlled ground station (ground station network) for Masat-1 to be able to receive telemetry from, and send telecommands to the satellite without supervision.

Keywords

satellite ground stations; telemetry; ESA; European Space Agency; Hungarian satellite; Masat-1; VEGA-1 maiden flight; automated ground station; elliptical orbit; ground station network; remote controlled ground station; telemetry; Receiving antennas; Satellite antennas; Satellite broadcasting; Satellites; Telemetry; ESA; Masat-1; VEGA-1 maiden flight; remote controlled ground station; satellite communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radioelektronika (RADIOELEKTRONIKA), 2014 24th International Conference

Conference_Location

Bratislava

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3714-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/Radioelek.2014.6828410

Filename

6828410