Software-defined radio transceiver for QB50 CubeSat telemetry and telecommand

Mwakyanjala, Moses Browne; Emami, Reza; Beek, Jaap van de

doi:10.2514/6.2016-5719

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“…Currently, most common onboard radio systems are hardware-defined. However, the trend is moving toward software-defined radio (SDR), as it is the case for the SE01's mission [51]. The SDR equipment has the benefit of being able to develop different radio designs with a single hardware implementation, hence not compromising the design of the telecommunications subsystem at the early stages of the project.…”

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CubeSat Mission: From Design to Operation

Nieto-Peroy

Emami

2019

Applied Sciences

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The current success rate of CubeSat missions, particularly for first-time developers, may discourage non-profit organizations to start new projects. CubeSat development teams may not be able to dedicate the resources that are necessary to maintain Quality Assurance as it is performed for the reliable conventional satellite projects. This paper discusses the structured life-cycle of a CubeSat project, using as a reference the authors’ recent experience of developing and operating a 2U CubeSat, called qbee50-LTU-OC, as part of the QB50 mission. This paper also provides a critique of some of the current poor practices and methodologies while carrying out CubeSat projects.

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CubeSat Mission: From Design to Operation

Nieto-Peroy

Emami

2019

Applied Sciences

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“…The SBB system we present in this paper was developed with the GNU radio development kit . The GNU radio kit has been deployed in a number of signal processing research projects, including acoustics, first responder basestation, cognitive radio, and low‐capacity ground stations for CubeSat missions . The GNU Radio kit has also been used for prototyping high‐performance SBB systems by researchers at Zodiac Aerospace and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory .…”

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“…5 The GNU radio kit has been deployed in a number of signal processing research projects, including acoustics, 6 first responder basestation, 7 cognitive radio, 8,9 and low-capacity ground stations for CubeSat missions. 10,11 The GNU Radio kit has also been used for prototyping high-performance SBB systems by researchers at Zodiac Aerospace 12 and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. 13 In both research projects, several performance bottlenecks associated with the open-source GNU radio and commercial off-the-shelf SDR frontends were encountered when the systems were deployed.…”

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Concurrent development and verification of an all‐software baseband for satellite ground operations

Mwakyanjala

Nieto-Peroy

Emami

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Summary Communication systems are adopting all‐software architectures, because of their scalability, extensibility, flexibility, and cost‐effectiveness. This paper introduces a concurrent approach to the development and verification of baseband systems for satellite ground operations based on the behaviour‐driven development methodology. The open‐source GNU Radio development kit is used for developing the software‐defined radio baseband signal processing, as well as simulating the satellite and realistic channel impairments. The system performance at the end shows deviations of less than 1 dB with respect to the ideal performance and the Green Book standards specified by the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems.

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Software-defined radio transceiver for QB50 CubeSat telemetry and telecommand

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CubeSat Mission: From Design to Operation

CubeSat Mission: From Design to Operation

Concurrent development and verification of an all‐software baseband for satellite ground operations

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