Title
Design and Evaluation of a Low-Cost CubeSat Communication Relay Constellation
Date Issued
02 July 2018
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Abstract
This paper proposes a LEO relay constellation formed by a ring of nanosatellites utilizing S-Band for data relay and UHF/VHF and S-Band for user communication. It is feasible with existing CubeSat hardware, and provides communication relay links to satellites from 495km to 850 km of altitude. By providing service to nanosatellites with a CubeSat-based relay network, user satellites require no costly relay-proprietary hardware, and instead can re-use hardware that is already in place aboard this class of spacecraft. The proposed constellation can be established at low cost and can significantly increase the available communication time of near polar orbit satellites, drastically increasing the available communications budget. A 9 ReSat based relay belt can increase link availability for a satellite in near-polar orbit by up to 945%.
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería eléctrica, Ingeniería electrónica
Ingeniería aeroespacial
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85065636734
ISBN
9781538673331
Source
2018 IEEE MTT-S Latin America Microwave Conference, LAMC 2018 - Proceedings
Resource of which it is part
2018 IEEE MTT-S Latin America Microwave Conference, LAMC 2018 - Proceedings
ISBN of the container
978-153867333-1
Sponsor(s)
The idea for this concept came to be during a COSPAR satellite design workshop held at KAIST SatReC in 2017. After the workshop, the authors continued to work on the idea and began to develop it into the more detailed mission concept presented in this publication. RPT acknowledges the support from Space Agency of Peru. CMF acknowledges funding through the NPI programme of the European Space Agency.
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