Design of low cost Ground Station without the use of a Front-End Amplifier
- Paper number
IAC-17,B2,6,9,x41291
- Author
Mr. Shardul Desai, College of Engineering, Pune, India
- Coauthor
Mr. Gaurav Juvekar, College of Engineering, Pune, India
- Coauthor
Ms. Shweta Pable, College Of Engineering , Pune, India
- Coauthor
Ms. Soniya Malwadkar, College of Engineering, Pune, India
- Coauthor
Mr. Darshan Shaha, College of Engineering, Pune, India
- Coauthor
Ms. Aditi Gadkari, College of Engineering, Pune, India
- Coauthor
Mr. Sumedh Pendurkar, College of Engineering, Pune, India
- Coauthor
Mr. Anupam Godse, College of Engineering, Pune, India
- Coauthor
Mr. Niramay Vaidya, College of Engineering, Pune, India
- Coauthor
Mr. Vishwas Karale, College of Engineering Pune, India
- Year
2017
- Abstract
Design of Ground Station system for a small satellite presents unique challenges and constraints with respect to system sensitivity, noise immunity and overall reliability of the system. Front-end amplifiers in a ground station provide improvement in sensitivity of the receiving system. Swayam is a 1U picosatellite developed by undergraduate students of College of Engineering, Pune (COEP), and launched by Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), operating in LEO and communicating in the UHF amateur radio band. In the iterative development process of COEP Ground Station, it was observed that a reliable communication link can be established with Swayam without the use of a front-end low noise amplifier while maintaining a link margin of 5dB. This paper puts forth the link analysis performed for the reception of Swayam's telemetry data with and without the use of a front-end amplifier. Verifying these values with theoretical link margins, we propose a simple low cost ground station system eliminating the use of a front-end amplifier.
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