1. Communications Design Review
Morehead State University
Morehead, KY
Prof. Bob Twiggs
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2. How are you going to transmit data up/down?
Design Review
How are you going to transmit data up/down?
How often will you be over a single ground station with a LEO orbit?
How much time will you have to transmit during passes?
Will your link margin allow you to communicate horizon to horizon?
What do you do if you get errors in your communication data?
How much of the contact time will you need to use for commanding satellite? 2
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3. How are you going to transmit data up/down?
Design Review
How are you going to transmit data up/down?
How often will you be over a single ground station with a LEO orbit?
What do you need to know to determine this?
How much time will you have to transmit during passes?
Will your link margin allow you to communicate horizon to horizon?
What do you do if you get errors in your communication data? 3
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4. How will your down loading data have an impact on the power system?
Design Review
How much of the contact time will you need to use for commanding satellite?
If you can not get all of the data down with a single ground station and you can not add any more stations, what are your options?
How will your down loading data have an impact on the power system?
What kind of analysis do you need to do now with the EPS? 4
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5. Will this operational scenario affect the thermal system?
Design Review
Will this operational scenario affect the thermal system?
Where is the heat coming from?
What about the charging and discharging of the battery? 5
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6. Design Review
Do a Comm System Design 6
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7. Make some assumptions – verify my assumptions and recalculate
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Make some assumptions – verify my assumptions and recalculate
Orbit: 600 km, circular
- 6 passes/day
- get ~ 13 minutes view time horiz. to horiz. on zenith pass.
- get ~ two passes with 6 minutes, one before
and one after zenith.
- this pattern will occur twice a day.
Link margin:
- assume you must take one minute to
connect on each pass and one minute to terminate comm at end of each pass. 7
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8. More assumptions – verify my assumptions and recalculate
Design Review
More assumptions – verify my assumptions and recalculate
Data volume:
- assume you have a 20% overhead required
to correct errors.
- if you use FEC you must have a 100%
overhead.
Data conversion: analog - digital
Resolution needed:
Temperatures, voltages: accuracy 5%
Currents: battery: accuracy 10%
Currents: solar panel accuracy – 5%
Currents: subsystem accuracy – 3%
All others: - 10% 8
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9. More assumptions – verify my assumptions and recalculate
Design Review
More assumptions – verify my assumptions and recalculate
Discrete bits to monitor:
25 discrete bits for states in satellite bus
Duty cycle:
You decide as a bus engineer what you need
to diagnoses anomalies. 9
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10. Design Review
Analysis:
From data collection, find total data collected each 12 hours.
Assume you have 1 watt on satellite with a -3dBi gain antenna. Transmitter line loss is 0.3dB.
You are operating at 435MHz.
Your ground antenna has a gain of 18dBi.
Your ground antenna line has a loss of 1.5 dB
You have an average 2 degree pointing error. 10
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11. Continued Analysis: The BER must be 10-5 or better.
Design Review
Continued Analysis:
The BER must be 10-5 or better.
Can you get all of the data down for the contact time given?
If not, what can you change to get data down that is reasonable?
Maybe you need to reduce the amount of data collected.
Change duty cycle? 11
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12. Continued Analysis: Change sample frequency? Change resolution?
Design Review
Continued Analysis:
Change sample frequency?
Change resolution?
Change BER? 12
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13. Got all the information you need here to do this analysis?
Design Review
Got all the information you need here to do this analysis? 13
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