RADIOSAT Ku-Band Transponder
PicoSaTs
Miniaturized Ku-band bent-pipe transponder with dual selectable uplink bands, up to 5 W RF and customizable 400 kHz to 200 MHz bandwidth.
Key figurescomparable across the catalogue
- Power
- 40 W
Normalised to common units so this product can be compared with others in its category. The supplier's own wording is below.
As published by the supplier
- Downlink
- 10.7 - 12.75 GHz
- Uplink (dual selectable bands)
- 12.75 - 13.25 GHz and 13.75 - 14.8 GHz
- Bandwidth
- Customizable from 400 kHz to 200 MHz (30 MHz default)
- RF output power
- Up to 5 W
- Receiver noise figure
- 3 dB
- Gain control
- 30 dB range; Fixed Gain Mode (FGM) and Automatic Gain Control (AGC)
- Power consumption
- < 40 W
- Input supply
- 12 V to 24 V
- Interfaces
- 2.92 mm RF connectors; space qualified data and power connectors; telemetry and control over RS422; debug and FW update over RS485
- Operating temperature
- -20 C to +70 C (non-operating -30 C to +90 C)
- Qualification
- Vibration and TVAC qualified by ECSS-E-ST-10-03C
About
A miniaturized non-regenerative transponder for CubeSat and small satellites, operating in Ku-band for LEO and GEO applications.
The transponder analog bandwidth can be customized from 400 kHz to 500 MHz. The receiver and transmitter can be tuned independently and the gain can be set in a 30 dB range as fixed (FGM) or adaptive with automatic gain control mode (AGC). The transponder offers a versatile CW beacon mode as an option.
Applications: LEO small satellite services and GEO satellite services. Additional features include in-orbit firmware updating and an optional CW beacon mode.
Documentation
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