Picosat S band transceivers adopting off the shelf microwave components: design constraints and system level simulations

Samaneh Soheili

Picosat S band transceivers adopting off the shelf microwave components: design constraints and system level simulations.

Rel. Marco Pirola, Abbas Nasri, Chiara Ramella. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Elettronica (Electronic Engineering), 2022

Abstract

Satellite communications are at the very heart of the modern communications and their relevance is continually growing both concerning civil and military users, and considering commercial and research fields. Satellite communication has become a huge international commercial success involving budget of billion of Euros. More than 200 countries and territories rely on nearly 200 satellites for defense, direct broadcast, navigational, and mobile communications, not to mention data collection and faxing, via domestic, regional, and global links. To establish theses links so that communication assets in the networks could be effectively be operative, network, data link, and physical layers connectivity needs to be considered.

Indeed, to do this we need defining the communications architecture that needs to take into account several elements such as space science orbiters, space exploration orbiters, space surface mobile and stationary vehicles, space relay orbiters, Earth orbiting relays that provide service to space systems, space Ascent and Descent modules, and associated Earth ground stations and mission operations centers