HAVELSAT: A software defined radio experimentation CubeSat

Author

Baceski, Emre ; Gokcebag, Serhan ; Erdem, Ahmet ; Erbay, Caban Gokhan ; Akyol, Mucahit ; Arslankoz, Kamil ; Arslan, Ismail ; Agca, Muhammed Akif ; Aydin, Yusuf Burak ; Aslan, Alim Rustem ; Ceylan, Osman

Author_Institution

HAVELSAN A.S., Ankara, Turkey

fYear

2015

Firstpage

831

Lastpage

834

Abstract

Despite the small amount of available volume, CubeSat missions have proven to be quite useful, especially for scientific data gathering, educational purposes and small scale industrial equipment testing. The aim of this article is to discuss the design principles and project goals of a CubeSat that is part of the QB50 project. HAVELSAT is a double-unit CubeSat with one functional and one scientific unit. The scientific payload of HAVELSAT is a Software Defined Radio for communication. The satellite also performs a small scale onboard image processing.

Keywords

artificial satellites; satellite communication; software radio; HAVELSAT scientific payload; QB50 project; double-unit CubeSat; educational purposes; scientific data gathering; small scale industrial equipment testing; small scale onboard image processing; software defined radio experimentation CubeSat mission; Computers; Payloads; Satellite broadcasting; Satellites; Software; Software radio; Space vehicles; CubeSat; QB50 Project; Software Defined Radio; double-unit satellites;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Recent Advances in Space Technologies (RAST), 2015 7th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Istanbul

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-7760-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RAST.2015.7208455

Filename

7208455