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DIY comms and control for amateur space / Sandy Antunes ; editor Patrick Di Justo ; production editor Melanie Yarbrough ; cover designer Ellie Volkhausen ; illustrator Rebecca Demarest.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Antunes, Sandy, author.
- Series:
- Make
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Artificial satellites.
- Command and control systems.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (157 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Do-it-yourself comms and control for amateur space
- D I Y comms and control for amateur space
- Talking and listening to your satellite
- Place of Publication:
- Sebastopol, California : Maker Media, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Radio spectrum for commanding and recording from our satellites is a shared resource with subtle hurdles. We walk the path originally paved by AMSATs to discuss the steps and licensing needed to set up and operate both a command uplink and a data download station and network. Find out how playing nicely with others maximizes your ability to get your data down.
- Contents:
- ""Copyright""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Conventions Used in This Book""; ""Safari® Books Online""; ""How to Contact Us""; ""Chapter 1. Overview""; ""Talking to Machines""; ""Parts of a Comm System""; ""Comm for the Impatient""; ""Two Walkie-Talkies""; ""Flatsat""; ""Bidirectional Bench Test Hardware""; ""Power, Range, and Licensing""; ""Higher Power Licensing""; ""Establishing a Ground Network""; ""Breaking International Law""; ""Housekeeping Data""; ""Housekeeping: Bus and Instrument Are Separate""; ""Alerts and Pages""; ""Limits Displays: Green, Yellow, Red""
- ""Data Integrity""""Requirements Checklist""; ""Performance Requirements""; ""Security & Anti-Jamming""; ""Spacecraft Orbits""; ""Frequency Allocation""; ""Physical Constraints""; ""Architecture Choices""; ""Comparing a Space-Based Network to a Ground-Based Network""; ""NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS)""; ""NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN)""; ""Near Earth Network""; ""Chapter 2. Radio""; ""Transceiver Concepts""; ""Wavelength and Frequency""; ""Dual Band and Modulation""; ""Doppler""; ""Interference""; ""ADC""; ""Packets""; ""APRS""; ""Software-Defined Radio""
- ""Chapter 3. Full Ground Station""""Downlink Only""; ""Operations Choices""; ""Start with the Mission Payload""; ""Comm Quantities""; ""Ground Network""; ""Ranging and Orbit Determination""; ""Ground System Design Products""; ""Mission Phases""; ""Chapter 4. Licensing""; ""Overview""; ""Extended Case: Private Comm Sat""; ""Future Ideas""; ""Regulatory Solutions""; ""IARU""; ""Smartphones""; ""High-Altitude Ballooning and Guerrilla Radio""; ""Demystifying the Basic Technology""; ""Regulatory and Permissions""; ""Ham Technician's License""; ""Scenarios""; ""Safehold""; ""Ground Sim""
- ""Software""""Compare and contrast""; ""Relays""; ""Line of Sight/Direct to Ground""; ""Relays""; ""Private Networks""; ""Chapter 5. Orbits""; ""Defining Orbits""; ""The Six Classic Orbital Elements""; ""TLEs""; ""Orbit Determination""; ""Time""; ""Satellite Time""; ""Ground Tracks""; ""Contact Passes""; ""Chapter 6. Comm Budgets""; ""Allocations""; ""Data Priorities""; ""Extended Example of Command via Text Messaging""; ""More Realistic Bandwidth Allocation""; ""Encoding""; ""Link Budget""; ""Units""; ""Link Budget Equation""; ""Going Deeper""; ""Data Budget""; ""Chapter 7. Antenna Design""
- ""Antenna Shape""""Common Spacecraft Antenna""; ""Common Ground Station Antenna""; ""Antenna Size and Frequency""; ""Impedance and SWR""; ""Antenna Materials""; ""Power, ERP, and EIRP""; ""Chapter 8. Performance Characteristics""; ""Data, Error Rates, and Availability""; ""Security""; ""Historical Satellite Hacking""; ""Chapter 9. Concept of Operations""; ""ConOps""; ""High-Level ConOps Design""; ""Ops Center Network""; ""Trending""; ""Science Operations Center (SOC)""; ""Science Monitoring""; ""Handling Anomalies""; ""Appendix A. Resources""; ""Afterword""
- Notes:
- "Talking and Listening to Your Satellite"--Cover.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 19, 2015).
- ISBN:
- 9781680450477
- 1680450476
- 9781680450453
- 168045045X
- 9781680450484
- 1680450484
- OCLC:
- 911430648
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