Communications subsystem

Antennas, transponders, link budgets, and the ground segment on the other end.

Scope

• Frequency bands and their allocations
• Antenna types, gain and pointing requirements
• Transponders, modulation and forward error correction
• The link budget end to end
• Ground station networks and contact scheduling

Notes

Nothing written here yet. Working notes go in Research and Learning Lab; anything that becomes durable is promoted onto this page.

References

To be added as the topic is worked through.