Miniaturized Radio Tranceiver for PocketQubes, Exceeding Performance of CubeSat Solutions

C.H. Broekhuizen; S. Speretta; M.S. Uludag; M.F. van den Bos; J. Haenen; A. Menicucci; E.K.A. Gill

Miniaturized Radio Tranceiver for PocketQubes, Exceeding Performance of CubeSat Solutions

C.H. Broekhuizen, S. Speretta, M.S. Uludag, M.F. van den Bos, J. Haenen, A. Menicucci, E.K.A. Gill

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In this paper, a detailed design is presented of a communications module that is designed to fit tight PocketQube design budgets but still offer performance at least comparable to commercial off-the-shelf CubeSat solutions. The communications module features extremely efficient power usage, less than 2 Watt DC for 1 Watt RF output while fitting in an extremely small volume, (42 x 42 x 8mm, approximately a quarter of the volume of CubeSat solutions). Our system also features a new communication scheme based on Short Block LPDC codes that provides a very high code gain (approximately 6dB for hard-decision and 9dB for soft-decision) using a high code rate. A ground modem implementation based on GNURadio is also presented, taking advantage of a new implementation for low-latency asynchronous data transmission.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	34th Annual Small Satellite Conference
Number of pages	8
Publication status	Published - 2020
Event	34th Annual Small Satellite Conference - Virtual/online event due to COVID-19 Duration: 1 Aug 2020 → 6 Aug 2020 Conference number: 34

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Conference	34th Annual Small Satellite Conference
Period	1/08/20 → 6/08/20

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