Visualization of global BILSAT-1 VHF frequency usage

Author

Telli, All ; Es, Alphan

Author_Institution

Sci. & Tech. Res. Council of Turkey, Ankara, Turkey

fYear

2005

fDate

9-11 June 2005

Firstpage

456

Lastpage

460

Abstract

BILSAT-1, a 130 kg enhanced micro satellite, is Turkey\´s first Low Earth Orbit Earth observation satellite. The satellite project was started in August 2001 at Surrey Satellite Technologies Limited (SSTL)\´s facilities in Guildford, UK and BILSAT-1 was launched successfully from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia on 27 September 2003. The BILSAT-1 communications subsystem is composed of VHF/UHF (amateur space band) and S-Band (commercial space band). The VHF receivers are always "ON" in orbit and can collect received signal strength data. This data can be sent down to the ground station. Therefore we can establish a map of VHF frequency usage of BILSAT-1 operation frequencies for the entire world. In this paper, in-orbit frequency usage or interference data for the BILSAT-1 VHF frequency band is presented.

Keywords

satellite communication; Global BILSAT-1 VHF frequency usage; S-band; UHF; interference; signal strength; Frequency; Interference; Low earth orbit satellites; Power measurement; Satellite broadcasting; Satellite ground stations; Space technology; Telemetry; Testing; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Recent Advances in Space Technologies, 2005. RAST 2005. Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8977-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RAST.2005.1512611

Filename

1512611