X-band sampling technology demonstration

Stephane Halté , Cédric Chambon (1) , Stephen Rawson , Abhijeet Dasgupta (2) , Guillaume Neveux (2) , Denis Barataud (2)

1 Callisto
2 XLIM-SRF - Systèmes RF

The technical objectives of this project are to simplify the Ground Station architecture currently used by European Space Agency in Deep Space Antenna by implementing the concept of Software Defined Radio. This paper summarizes the experimental results obtained at the preliminary and detailed design phases. The reception RF signals have been sampled using commercially available Track and Hold amplifier and digitized using Analogue-to-Digital Converter. The transmission RF signal have been synthetized using high-frequency Digital to Analogue Converters.

Mots clés: RF sampling; Ground station; digital signal processing; digitization

Domaines: Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]; Micro et nanotechnologies/Microélectronique; Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]; Electronique

Stephane Halté, Cédric Chambon, Stephen Rawson, Abhijeet Dasgupta, Guillaume Neveux, et al.. X-band sampling technology demonstration. TTC 2019 - 8th ESA International Workshop on Tracking, Telemetry and Command Systems for Space Applications, Sep 2019, Darmstadt, Germany. ⟨10.1109/TTC.2019.8895295⟩. ⟨hal-02465522⟩