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Construction of Indoor Ground Station for Cubesat Communication Test  

Han, Sanghyuck (항공우주미래기술팀)
Moon, Sangman (달탐사기술팀)
Shin, Dongyeop (항공우주미래기술팀)
Moon, SungTae (항공우주미래기술팀)
Gong, Hyeon Cheol (항공우주미래기술팀)
Choi, Gi-Hyuk (미래융합연구실)
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Aerospace Engineering and Technology / v.13, no.2, 2014 , pp. 73-79 More about this Journal
Abstract
During developing cubesat flight software, Communication test between cubesat and ground station is needed. For this, we have constructed indoor ground station without outdoor antenna for decreasing total cost and time. In this time, if output power of ground station is high, it will affect for cubesat transceiver to be fail. For solving this problem, ground station must be designed for output power of it to be lower than input power of cubesat satellite, and it must be verified. In this paper, first, we describe cubesat indoor ground station using UHF and VHF. Second, we describe output power decreasing test for indoor operation of ground station by attaching attenuators in the end of the output connector.
Keywords
Cubesat; Indoor Ground Station; Attenuator;
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