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Design of Ground Station System for CubeSat STEP Cube Lab.

큐브위성 STEP Cube Lab.의 지상국 시스템 설계

  • 전영현 (조선대학교 항공우주공학과) ;
  • 채봉건 (조선대학교 항공우주공학과) ;
  • 정현모 (조선대학교 항공우주공학과) ;
  • 전성용 (조선대학교 항공우주공학과) ;
  • 오현웅 (조선대학교 항공우주공학과)
  • Received : 2012.11.14
  • Accepted : 2012.12.20
  • Published : 2012.12.31
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Abstract

CubeSats classified as pico-class satellite require a ground station to track the satellite, transmit a command, and receive an on-orbit data such as SOH (State-of-Health) and mission data according to the operation plan. For this, ground station system has to be properly designed to perform a communication to with the satellite with enough up- and down-link budgets. In this study, a conceptual design of the ground station has been performed for the CubeSat named as STEP Cube Lab. (Cube Laboratory for Space Technology Experimental Project). The paper includes a ground station hardware interface design, link budget analysis and a ground station software realization. In addition, the operation plan of the ground station has been established considering the STEP Cube Lab. mission requirements.

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