Software-Defined Radios for CubeSat Applications: A Brief Review and Methodology

Theoharis, Panagiotis Ioannis; Raad, Raad; Tubbal, Faisel; Khan, Muhammad Usman Ali; Liu, Sining

doi:10.1109/jmass.2020.3032071

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“…One of the most recent custom SDR systems for CubeSats is that of UOW (University of Wollongong) CubeSat [25]. The aim of the UOW 3U CubeSat project is to be able to transmit images from the satellite in the period of one pass over the ground station (60 seconds) while having an adaptive and on-flight reconfigurable communication system [25], [36]. For a maximum image size of 3 MB, the required data rate would be about 0.4 Mbps [36].…”

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“…The SDR follows the architecture of a Zero-Intermediate-Frequency (ZIF) transceiver where there is no Intermediate Frequency (IF) stage in the communication system [36]. This results in a reduction of the hardware components needed and thus a highly integrated transceiver [25]. The transceiver selected is MAX2837 operating at a carrier frequency of 2.4 GHz [36].…”

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“…Since this review is concerned with the baseband architecture, the details of the analog domain design will not be detailed and can be rather referred to in [25] and [36]. The digital baseband signal processing functions are performed using a Cyclone IV E FPGA from Altera [25]. 16-QAM modulation is used to provide high modulation efficiency [36].…”

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“…Since this SDR operates in a half-duplex scheme, a limitation arising due to the chosen transceiver, only the transmit path or the receive path operates at a given time [36]. The output transmitted power of this system is 2 W, after using an external power amplifier at the transmission side in addition to the transceiver's preamplifier [25]. Since the received signal by the CubeSat from the ground station can be as low as -80 dBm [37], a Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) is used at the receiver's side to increase the SNR and minimize the added Noise Figure (NF) [25].…”

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A Critical Review of Baseband Architectures for CubeSats’ Communication Systems

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This survey 1 fills in an important gap in the literature on CubeSat communication systems’ designs and architectures. The paper 2 comprehensively reviews the design details in-depth and 3 critically evaluates the performance and reliability of the reviewed systems by analyzing the demonstration and testing results and illustrating implicit assumptions in the reviewed works. Furthermore, the paper 4 proposes an original CubeSat communication system categorization based on the design approach and 5 analyzes the features and limitations of each category. Consequently, this leads to identifying the limitations of current CubeSat communication systems and the promising future developments that can boost CubeSat communications capabilities.

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A Critical Review of Baseband Architectures for CubeSats’ Communication Systems

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“…In addition, they have low radiation loss, easy matching of input impedance and are easily integrated with electronic devices [4]. However, their main limitation is their narrow bandwidth, low gains and low efficiency at S-band, i.e., 2.40 GHz [5][6][7]. For example, in [8], the authors presented S-band transparent mesh patch antenna for 3 U CubeSat.…”

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A Wideband Metal-Only Patch Antenna for CubeSat

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This article presents a compact wideband high gain patch antenna for CubeSat. The proposed metal-only antenna mainly consists of an upper patch, a folded ramp-shaped patch and shoring pins connecting the antenna with the ground plane. By adjusting the lengths and widths of two arms of the upper F-shaped patch, a second resonant frequency is generated, and hence, the −10 dB bandwidth is increased. Moreover, the effect of arms’ lengths and widths on reflection coefficients, operating frequency and bandwidth is presented. To validate the design and the simulation results, a prototype metal-only patch antenna was fabricated and tested in a Chamber. A good agreement between the simulated and measured results is achieved. The measured results show that the fabricated prototype achieves a −10 dB bandwidth of 44.9% (1.6–2.7 GHz), a small reflection coefficient of −24.4 dB and a high efficiency, i.e., 85% at 2.45 GHz. The radiation performance of the proposed antenna is measured, showing a peak realized gain of 8.5 dBi with cross polarization level less than −20 dB at 2.45 GHz and a 3 dB gain bandwidth of 61.22%.

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A wideband X‐band circularly polarized printed monopole antenna backed by AMC reflector for 5G/IoT CubeSat applications

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Tubbal,

Idrissi

et al. 2024

Micro & Optical Tech Letters

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This letter presents a coplanar waveguide‐fed printed monopole antenna backed by an artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) reflector. The proposed monopole antenna achieves circular polarization by loading the monopole with a printed coil and using an asymmetric ground plane. In addition, the AMC increases the antenna gain while maintaining a wide axial ratio (AR) bandwidth. The unit cell of the AMC is based on a Minkowski‐like prefractal geometry. The antenna is fabricated and measured with a total size of 1.07 λ0 × 1.07 λ0 × 0.25 λ0 at the operating frequency of 8.5 GHz. The measured results show a wide −10 dB impedance bandwidth of 26.9% (7.12–9.38 GHz), a wide 3 dB AR bandwidth of 22.23% (8–9.89 GHz) as well as a peak gain of 8.3 dBi at 8.5 GHz. This is significantly better than comparable antennas in addition to this design being the smallest in size.

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Software-Defined Radios for CubeSat Applications: A Brief Review and Methodology

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A Critical Review of Baseband Architectures for CubeSats’ Communication Systems

A Critical Review of Baseband Architectures for CubeSats’ Communication Systems

A Wideband Metal-Only Patch Antenna for CubeSat

A wideband X‐band circularly polarized printed monopole antenna backed by AMC reflector for 5G/IoT CubeSat applications

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