Communications

Communications

The communications system is in charge of handling all communications to and from the satellite.

Failure of the communications system can cause mission failure for nearly any satellite regardless of the state of any other systems, as almost every satellite mission requires the transmission of data back to Earth and receiving vital instructions during the mission.

The communications system for MR SAT is a half-duplex, cross-band system capable of uplink and downlinking to our campus ground station in the Space Systems Engineering lab. This system can be shut off in case of transmitter lock. This is very crucial to successful FCC licensing and the mission’s success.

Pictured above is the system on the ground which communicates and transfers data to and from the satellites.