This article summarizes the design concepts and implementation of an advanced Ka-band (34.4 GHz/32 GHz) transponder breadboard for the next generation of space communications systems applications. The selected architecture upgrades the X-band (7.2 GHz/8.4 GHz) deep space transponder (DST) to provide Ka-band up/Ka- and X-band down capability. In addition, it can also be configured to provide X-band up/Ka- and X-band down. The Ka-band Transponder breadboard incorporates state-of-the-art components including sampling mixers, Ka-band dielectric resonator oscillator, and microwave monolithic integrated circuits (MMICs). The MMICs that were tested in the breadboard include upconverters, downconverters, automatic gain control circuits, mixers, phase modulators, and amplifiers. The measured receiver dynamic range, tracking range, acquisition rate, static phase error, and phase jitter characteristics of the Ka-band breadboard interfaced to the advanced engineering model X-band DST are in good agreement with the expected performance. The results show a receiver tracking threshold of -149 dBm with a dynamic range of 80 dB, and a downlink phase jitter of 7/spl deg/ rms. The analytical results of phase noise and Allan standard deviation are in good agreement with the experimental results.


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    Title :

    Performance of a Ka-band transponder breadboard for deep space applications


    Contributors:
    Mysoor, N.R. (author) / Kayalar, S. (author) / Lane, J.P. (author) / Kermode, A.W. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1997-01-01


    Size :

    936283 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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