A flexible, transceiver-based RF communications system for small satellites

This paper describes the development and performance of a highly integrated RF transceiver system. The system is card-based, allowing for ready incorporation into an integrated spacecraft electronics module, and scalable, enabling easy adaptation to meet varying mission requirements. A description o...

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Published in:Acta astronautica 2003-05, Vol.52 (9-12), p.939-946
Main Authors: DeBoy, C C, Reinhart, M J
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:This paper describes the development and performance of a highly integrated RF transceiver system. The system is card-based, allowing for ready incorporation into an integrated spacecraft electronics module, and scalable, enabling easy adaptation to meet varying mission requirements. A description of the transceiver architecture is presented, highlighting particular advantages in cost and size savings. The use of commercial off-the-shelf parts and a recently developed, non-coherent, two-way doppler tracking technique is also reported, as are performance results on transceivers built for two NASA missions that will use these cards.
ISSN:0094-5765
DOI:10.1016/S0094-5765(03)00075-4