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http://dx.doi.org/10.5515/KJKIEES.2014.25.2.208

Analysis on Receiving Performance Degradation of Ground Station in Lunar Mission  

Park, Durk-Jong (Ground System Development Team, Korea Aerospace Research Institute)
Yeom, Kyung-Whan (Department of Radio Science & Engineering, Chungnam National University)
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Abstract
Ground station in lunar mission is responsible to receive telemetry signal including sensor data from lunar orbiter and/or lander. At preliminary stage of developing this ground station, receiving performance such as antenna size and noise temperature should be designed on the basis of link budget analysis. When the antenna of ground station is pointing to the moon to communicate with lunar orbiter and/or lander, noise level is supposed to be increasing due to the lunar flux density. It means that the moon is working as a noise source to degrade receiving performance when antenna is pointing to the moon. Antenna noise temperature contributed by the moon was firstly calculated and secondary validated by using test configuration in this paper. Consequently, it was shown that antenna noise temperature caused by the moon was quietly matched with measured one and G/T degradation of receiving system in lunar mission can be calculated depending on antenna size and frequency.
Keywords
Moon; Lunar; Orbiter; Lander; Antenna;
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