In this paper we present design, manufacture and qualification of a Radar Back End (RBE) for NISAR Mission's Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Instrument. The instrument uses Sweep SAR technique to generate high fidelity radar images while capturing an image over a large swath. It requires highly stable clocks to accomplish that. NISAR RBE is the heart of the L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (LSAR) instrument. It generates radar's transmit chirp signals, ultra-stable clocks and oscillators signals. In order to generate ultra-stable clocks some novel filtering and frequency multiplication techniques were utilized. These techniques have been presented in this paper. NISAR mission requires over 200 chirps to perform science measurements. Hardware and firmware architecture utilized to generate chirps have been presented in this paper. Unique space qualified techniques for DC to DC conversion has been presented in this paper. In addition, RBE was designed to be block redundant space qualified assembly. Novel cross strapping techniques were implemented to achieve that. Validation and qualification process employed to certify RBE flight hardware for flight has been presented in this paper.


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    Title :

    Radar Back End for NASA/ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) Instrument


    Contributors:
    Quddus, Momin (author) / Custodero, Brian (author) / Volain, Barry (author) / Wang, Brandon (author) / Shaffer, Scot (author) / Krohn, Bruce (author) / Huang, Nelson (author) / Tsoi, Ben (author) / Tseng, Steve (author)


    Publication date :

    2022-03-05


    Size :

    5696135 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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