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Power Budgets For Cubesat Radios To Support Ground Communications And Inter-Satellite Links, Otilia Popescu
Power Budgets For Cubesat Radios To Support Ground Communications And Inter-Satellite Links, Otilia Popescu
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CubeSats are a class of pico-satellites that have emerged over the past decade as a cost-effective alternative to the traditional large satellites to provide space experimentation capabilities to universities and other types of small enterprises, which otherwise would be unable to carry them out due to cost constraints. An important consideration when planning CubeSat missions is the power budget required by the radio communication subsystem, which enables a CubeSat to exchange information with ground stations and/or other CubeSats in orbit. The power that a CubeSat can dedicate to the communication subsystem is limited by the hard constraints on the total …