Development of CINEMA Mission Uplink Communication System

Triplet Ionospheric Observatory (TRIO) CubeSatforIon, Neutral, Electron MAgneticfields (CINEMA) is a CubeSat with the weight 3 kg that will be operated in the orbit conditions of about 800 km altitude and 90° inclination angle, using the S-band and ultra-high frequency (UHF)-band communication frequ...

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Published inJournal of astronomy and space sciences Vol. 29; no. 1; pp. 33 - 40
Main Authors Yoon, Na-Young, Yoon, Se-Young, Kim, Yong-Ho, Yoon, Ji-Won, Jin, Ho, Seon, Jong-Ho, Chae, Kyu-Sung, Lee, Dong-Hun, Lin, Robert P.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 한국우주과학회 01.03.2012
The Korean Space Science Society
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Summary:Triplet Ionospheric Observatory (TRIO) CubeSatforIon, Neutral, Electron MAgneticfields (CINEMA) is a CubeSat with the weight 3 kg that will be operated in the orbit conditions of about 800 km altitude and 90° inclination angle, using the S-band and ultra-high frequency (UHF)-band communication frequencies. Regarding the communication antenna loaded on the satellite, the two patch antennas has the downlink function in the S-band, whereas the two whip antennas has the function to receive the command sent by the ground station to the satellite in the UHF-band. The uplink ground station that communicates through the UHF-band with the CINEMA satellite was established at Kyung Hee University. The system is mainly composed of a terminal node controller, a transceiver, and a helical antenna. The gain of the helical antenna established at the Kyung Hee University ground station was 9.8 dBi. The output of the transceiver was set to be 5 W (6.9 dB) for the communication test. Through the far-field test of the established system, it was verified that the Roman characters, figures and symbols were converted into packets and transmitted to the satellite receiver in the communica\-tion speed of 9,600 bps.
Bibliography:http://janss.kr/PublishedPaper/year_abstract.asp?idx=475
G704-000106.2012.29.1.005
ISSN:2093-5587
2093-1409
DOI:10.5140/JASS.2012.29.1.033