The Aerospace Corporation (Aerospace) CubeSat program has designed a 10 Watt, inverse Class F Gallium Nitride (GaN) power amplifier currently installed and in use in CubeSat mobile ground stations. At 915 MHz and 2 dB compression, the amplifier has 17.0 dB of gain, 40.4 dBm output power, and 83.4% Power Added Efficiency (PAE). This amplifier was designed in Advanced Design System (ADS) with a vendor transistor model and optimized transmission line matching networks. A miniaturized lumped element version is currently being designed for implementation in future CubeSats. Such an amplifier will yield significant power savings and improved link margin for a system with very tight size, weight, and power (SWaP) restrictions.


    Access

    Check access

    Check availability in my library

    Order at Subito €


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    Class F GaN power amplifiers for CubeSat communication links


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2012-03-01


    Size :

    1164388 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



    Power Systems for Cubesat-Class Satellites

    Shiroma, Wayne A. / Thakker, Purvesh | AIAA | 2010


    Development of the standard CubeSat deployer and a CubeSat class PicoSatellite

    Puig-Suari, J. / Turner, C. / Ahlgren, W. | IEEE | 2001


    Cubesat Radio Communication Systems

    Shiroma, Wayne A. / Thakker, Purvesh | AIAA | 2010


    CubeSat electrical power subsystems

    Clark, C. / Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics | British Library Conference Proceedings | 2013


    Ranging over Optical Communication Links in the CubeSat Laser Infrared CrosslinK (CLICK) B/C Mission

    Tomio, Hannah / Serra, Paul / de La Paz, Leonardo Gallo et al. | IEEE | 2023