X-BAND SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIO FOR CUBESAT APPLICATIONS
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Authors
Bischoff, Greg
Subjects
X-band
SDR
software-defined radio
CubeSat
SDR
software-defined radio
CubeSat
Advisors
Newman, James H.
Minelli, Giovanni
Date of Issue
2019-09
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Publisher
Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School
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Abstract
Software-defined radios (SDRs) are used in many communications applications and offer flexibility in designing a communication network by offering rapid configuration changes after the radio is already produced. This is of interest in the small satellite industry, where small, lightweight, low-cost, and programmable radios will be needed for a wide array of upcoming missions of increasing complexity. Previous Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) research has produced a C-band SDR payload in a 1U CubeSat form factor. The X-band of the radio frequency spectrum offers more bandwidth, and opens the possibility of higher data rate transmissions. The objective for this project was to build an X-band SDR that can be used in future NPS research and flown on multiple platforms, including high altitude balloons, high altitude rockets, and CubeSats. This project built on previous C-band SDR research by converting the transmissions to X-band, expanding the over-air software protocol, implementing a new waveform, increasing the over-air data rate, and assessing the overall performance of the system.
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Thesis
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Space Systems Academic Group (SP)
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NPS Report Number
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DoD Space
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.