In this paper, software tools for analyzing the communications capabilities of Radio Frequency (RF) ISLs are developed, and validated. The software tools are extremely flexible and can be used for analyzing any freespace RF ISL. The tools explore trade-offs in the communications capability by varying the requirements, parameters, and components of the communications system. Three GUIs are developed. The first GUI can use parameters from any satellite constellation geometry to calculate the operating range of the ISLs including inter-plane ranges between satellites within the same orbit plane as well as ranges between orbital planes within satellite constellation. The second GUI can work with any type of satellite whether it is GEO or LEO and solves for an unknown parameter of the communications system when all other parameters are given. The third GUI extends the analysis capability by plotting the trade-off between two parameters over a specified range of data. These plots analysis of the trade- off parameters for ISLs can indicate the crucial parameters which have the largest effect on system design and allows smooth and efficient design for ISLs.


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    Title :

    Building a feasible software tool for analyzing RF inter-satellite links


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Sensors and Systems for Space Applications V ; 2012 ; Baltimore,Maryland,United States


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2012-05-07





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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