DocumentCode
3580928
Title
A 2.4 GHz High Data Rate radio for pico-satellites
Author
Butters, Brenden ; Raad, Raad
Author_Institution
Comput. & Telecommun. Eng., Univ. of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
fYear
2014
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
6
Abstract
CubeSat is a class of popular pico-satellites that is limited in size to a standard 10×10×10cm unit. In this paper, we present a functioning High Data Rate (HDR) 2.4 GHz radio for use on a CubeSat. Current CubeSats suffer from low data rate radios and this severely limits their functionality. In this design, the operating constraints of a CubeSat have been addressed. Namely, power, wide variations in temperature, the size and weight of the components, and cost. The radio can potentially achieve bits rates in the order of 60 Mbps using 0.3W in Rx mode and 0.5W in Tx mode - with a further 2W for the power amplifier.
Keywords
mobile satellite communication; picocellular radio; radiofrequency power amplifiers; CubeSat; HDR; Rx mode; Tx mode; frequency 2.4 GHz; high data rate radio; pico-satellites; power 0.3 W; power 0.5 W; power 2 W; power amplifier; size 10 cm; Band-pass filters; Baseband; Field programmable gate arrays; Mixers; Radio frequency; Satellites; Transceivers; 2.4GHz; CubeSat; PCB design; Pico-sattelite; radio;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Telecommunication Systems Services and Applications (TSSA), 2014 8th International Conference on
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/TSSA.2014.7065943
Filename
7065943
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