• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.73-79
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• 2014

During developing cubesat flight software, Communication test between cubesat and ground station is needed. For this, we have constructed indoor ground station without outdoor antenna for decreasing total cost and time. In this time, if output power of ground station is high, it will affect for cubesat transceiver to be fail. For solving this problem, ground station must be designed for output power of it to be lower than input power of cubesat satellite, and it must be verified. In this paper, first, we describe cubesat indoor ground station using UHF and VHF. Second, we describe output power decreasing test for indoor operation of ground station by attaching attenuators in the end of the output connector.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.45-50
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• 2006

A satellite and ground stations which are developed in a program are tested whether the interface between the satellite and ground is well established before satellite operations. These compatibility tests are performed when the satellite is connected with the ground stations after all satellite and ground stations requirements are verified. The content of the RF compatibility test is to check whether the interface requirements which are described on the Interface Control Document are well developed. During the early operation phase and tentative contingency operations of the satellite, KARI ground station uses other oversea ground stations which are located worldwide according to contract between the KARI and the contractor. Since oversea ground stations were not developed for the designated space program, system integrator should check whether the oversea ground stations are satisfied with interface requirements. Using the RF suitcase, RF interface and the content of RF communication can directly be verified during RF compatibility test on oversea ground station without KARI ground station's support. The RF compatibility test using RF suitcase was performed oversea ground stations as well as KARI ground station located on Korea. The content of RF compatibility test was standardized in order to be used at any oversea ground stations, especially fitted for the operations concept of launch and early operations phase. The test content would be RF characteristics, protocol, command loop test, telemetry loop test, and ground station interface test.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.52-57
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• 2015

For the purpose of drawing out the technological criteria for the development of the National Environmental Satellite Center Earth Station, some constructional conditions for the establishment of the National Environmental Satellite Center and several characteristics of National Environmental Satellite Center Earth Station to be developed in the near future were analyzed. In addition, the structure of Environmental Satellite Earth Station and its internal interfaces by analyzing the characteristics of National Environmental Satellite Center Earth Station were depicted. In this paper, some top level requirements of the Environmental Satellite Earth Station and several interface requirements between the Environmental Satellite Earth Station and the Satellite Control Center were systematically described.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.417-430
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• 2007

The selection of ground stations is one of the essential process of IGS (International GNSS Service) products. High quality GPS data should be collected from the globally distributed ground stations. In this study, we investigated an effect of ground station network selection on GPS satellite ephemeris. The GPS satellite ephemeris obtained from the twelve ground station networks were analyzed to investigate the effect of selection of ground stations. For data quality check, the observations, the number of cycle slips, and multipath of pseudoranges for L1 and L2 were considered. The ideal network defined by Taylor-Karman structure and SOD (Second Order Design) were used to obtain the optimal ground station network.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry, and Cartography Conference
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.423-427
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• 2010

현재 GPS/INS 운영 방법은 일정한 범위 내에 GPS 지상기준국을 설치하도록 되어있다. 그러나 촬영지역이 넓을 경우나 작업의 우선순위 등에 따라 지상기준국의 운영이 곤란한 상황이 발생할 수 있으며, 작업자의 실수, 수신기의 오류 등으로 지상기준국을 항상 안정적으로 운영하기 어렵다. 이에 본 연구에서는 국토지리정보원의 GPS 상시관측소를 활용하여 항공레이저측량 원시자료를 구축하고, 지상 기준국을 사용한 결과와의 비교를 통해 기준국이 항공레이저측량 결과에 미치는 영향을 분석하고자하였다.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.170-176
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• 2011

This paper analyzes the orbit determination results using azimuth and elevation angle from ground tracking data, which has the standard data interface format, GEOS-C. The ground tracking data is very useful for initial orbit determination after a satellite launch. In this paper, the quality of the measurement data has been investigated using a variety of real tracking passes, compared with the high precision orbit data of KOMPSAT-2. The accumulated tracking data from consecutive satellite-ground passes is processed for orbit determination using least square method. The accuracy of orbit determination result is also presented.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.25 no.9
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• pp.944-951
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• 2014

In this paper, evaluation indices of the location selection of satellite ground station is proposed to maximize satellite applications. The evaluation index has been developed based on radio-wave environmental conditions to avoid the radio interference to perform the missions of ocean observation satellite. The radio interference investigation was generated based on professionals of satellite control/operation, calibration/validation, applications. And evaluation index was applied to a candidate site of ground station. In the future, this result may be able to compare with the results of other candidate sites for the best location selection of 'marine mission-oriented ground stations'. According to recent trends of mission-oriented ground stations, the results can be used for location selection of 'marine mission-oriented ground station' as reference.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.81-89
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• 2022

This study measured the radio environment of 10 domestic institutions with CubeSat ground stations for 24 hours in three frequency bands (VHF/UHF/S-band) allocated by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The impact of the RF environment around the ground stations on CubeSat downlink frequencies was analysed and compared with acceptable interference noise requirements from the CubeSat RF link. The findings indicate that not only the selection of downlink frequency but also the configuration of RF communication link design and ground station system of CubeSat should consider the S-band RF environment around the ground station due to the presence of several wireless devices.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.142-149
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• 2014

After launch of Low Earth Orbit(LEO) satellite, Initial Activation Checkout(IAC) and Calibration and Validation(Cal & Val) procedure are performed prior to enter normal operation phase. During normal operation phase, most of the time is allocated for mission operation except following up measures to anomaly and orbit maintenance. Since mission operation capability is key indicator for success of LEO satellite program and consistent with promotion purpose of LEO satellite program, reliability should be ensured by conducting through test. In order to ensure reliability by examining the role of LEO satellite and ground station during ground test phase, realistic test scenario that is similar to actual operation conditions should be created, and test that aims to verify full mission cycle should be performed by transmitting created command and receiving image and telemetry data. This paper describes the test design and result. Consideration items for test design are described in detail and result of designed test items are summarized.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.51-56
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• 2010

There are two main software in COMS ground station at the normal mode operation - stationkeeping and wheel off-loading. In this paper, ground software validation test for wheel off-loading is summarized and described. The wheel off-loading was performed the design change from E3000 heritage and analyzed. The wheel off-loading of ground software has two part; one is wheel off-loading management for parameters change at the thruster set switching time and the other is wheel off-loading set-point being sent to satellite for the reference momentum.