• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.853-862
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• 2019

In this paper, we designed a 4.5kW X-band SSPA transmitter to replace the TWTA search radar transmitter with low MTBF and high maintenance cost. The transmitter is designed for the performance of over 520W average transmission output and 4.0kW maximum transmission output. In particular, by implementing a graceful degradation, it is designed to maintain better performance than conventional TWTA transmitter up to 40% (13 assembly modules) failure level of 200W power amplifier assembly. Through an experiment on the effective range of X-band, the performance of proposed transmitter verified the values of the maximum transmission output 6.1kW, spurious output 69.16dBc, RF pulse rising time 15.2ns and RF pulse falling time 16.3ns. The experiment confirmed the change of output power according to the graceful degradation due to fault injection.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.108-114
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• 2008

The aim of this analysis is to verify the electrical compatibility of the interfaces which exist between TWTA(Travelling Wave Tube Amplifier) which is equipment of the Ka-band payload in COMS (Communication, Ocean and Meteorological Satellite) and external equipments. For each interface, this study checked the compatibility between equipments for the power links, commands, digital telemetry, analog telemetry, and failure condition or AIT(Assembly, Integration and Test) errors. In addition with this interface compatibility verification, this study outputs electrical and manufacturing recommendations to be applied at harness level.