New Generation Satellite

Technologies

By
M.K.HAK
 SATCOM Technologies Development
Overview
Products • Service • Solu
tions
 Development Over View
• Space Segment
– Design Life : 15 to 18 Years
– On Board Processing Optimizing Transponder Packing to
Conserve Power and Transponder Utilization.
– Back Up Power source to minimize service outages during Solar
Eclipse/ Lunar Shadow.
– Automatic Transponder Gain Control for Rain Fade at Higher
Frequency Bands : To Allow Lower Antenna Sizes at Hub.
– Number Of Trans Ponders : Close to Hundreds
– Available Satellite Band Width : Up to 10 GHz Beam Shaping and
Switching for Dynamic Coverage and maximizing Revenue.
– Inter Satellite Laser Communication for avoiding double hop
 Satcom Technologies – Development
Overview. - Ground Segment
• Major Thrust Areas of Developments in Sat com
Technology Ground Segment are
• Antenna – Reducing Size/Weight without any
compromise on capability.
• Frequency of Operation - Up & Up ( Increasing
Frequency means higher gain with lower antenna Dia.)
• High Power Amplifier – Higher Reliability and ease of
Maintenance, Higher Power at increasing Freq.
• Other Electronics Like LNA, Up Down Converters,
Antenna Control and Tracking Sub Systems
• Mobility – At all Times, Irrespective of Terrain and
Equipment Complexity.
 Frequency of Operation
•Currently Used Frequency Spectrum For Satellite
Communication –
• L, S, C, X and Ku Band
 New Deployments
• Ka Band
– 27.5 – 30 GHz Uplink
– 17.2 – 21.2 GHz Dn Link
Under development
•V Band
– 75 GHz Uplink
– 40 GHz Dn Link
•Main Advantage of going to higher Frequency Bands is
availability of Larger Bandwidth, thereby Making the Sat
Com more cost effective.
 High Power Amplifiers
•Solid State Quad Mod Power
Amplifier Now Available Up to
– C band - 2 KW
– Ku Band - 400 W
– Ka Band - 50 W
•Modular In Design
•High Reliability MTBF more
than 50000 Hrs
• No Downtime with Partial
Module Failure.
• Restoration to Full Power
with out any Service Outage
• Can be integrated with a
Block Up Converter for
outdoor installation.
 Associated Electronics
•In Line with the Higher
Frequency Band Deployments in
the Sat com arena, the all
receive chain components like
LNA, UDC’s, Tracking and
Antenna Control Systems are
also keeping pace in.
•Tomorrow’s Satellite Network to
achieve Rx. G/T of 33.3 Deg K
with a mere 3.8 M Ka band
Antenna, with 100 K LNA and
anyone of them could act as
Hub.
•Total RF System mounted just
below the Antenna Hub to
minimize the
 Low Noise Block Converters -
•As a lower cost solution
LNB
without compromising on the
quality, this product combines
the Low Noise Amplifier and
down converter functions.
•The LNA & Dn Converter
redundancy can be controlled
by a single switch thus saving
cost and making the unit more
compact and power friendly.
•Takes Ka/Ku band Rf input
and delivers L Band (900 –
1400 MHz out put)
 Mobility
•Geo Stationary Satellite Communication was using Fixed
Satellite Earth Stations (FSS).
• Second Generation Satellite Earth Station witnessed
Transported Satellite Earth Stations Redployable or Vehicle
Mounted.
– Pointing to Satellite may take a few hours
•Third Generation Satellite Earth Stations - Satcom on the
Move –
– Continuous Satellite Communication even while the vehicle is moving at
a fast speed or unstable in a very tough terrain
– Auto Pointing Satellite Earth Stations.
•Currently, Mainly For Defence Applications but very soon to
enter the Civilian Applications as well like Disaster Recovery /
VIP Hotline etc.
 Satcom On The Move
• Maintains Continuous
Communication in all
weather terrain land
air or Sea even while
Moving
• Maintains Link even
when the vehicle is
sharply turning.
Warrior Man Pack Auto Pointing
•
Earth Station
Can be Carried by two
Persons as back Pack
• Total Weight : Less than
40 Ponds (20 Kg)
• Takes a few minutes of
setting up
• Supports Encrypted
Voice Data in TDMA
and IP Format.
• Useful For Front
Formations for
Maintaining Continuous
Communication with the
Command Post
Special Antenna For Monitoring
Purposes. - Tarus
• Can Support up to 36 Geo
Stationary Satellite with2
Deg Separation in the Geo
Stationary Arc.
•Suppotrs all Frequency
Bands For Receive Only
Applications.
•Can be deployed as per
requirement. Only the feed
to be added with out
Disturbing Other Usage.
• No Moving Parts. Hence
Maximum Life & Reliability.
 Characteristics of New Generation
Satellite Network
• The size of the hub or remote station as per aesthetics and user
convenience and not only on technical compulsion
• Flat Non Hierarchical Network : No designated Hub.
• To be Open Ended and Protocol Free.
• Search, Seek and Push Pull Operations to be Supported
• Bursty, Variable BW & Sporadic Traffic! Welcome
• Bandwidth-on-demand multi service satellite network
architecture
• Common air interface over a point-to-point or Point to Multi Point
Satellite link
• Position Location Services Integrated with GPS
• Competition with Wide Band MW
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