• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.30-40
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• 1996

The telecommand system of KITSAT micorsatellite receives commands from ground stations or on-board computers. It decodes, validates and delivers commands to sub-system. The telemetry system is to collect, process and format satellite housekeeping and mission data for use by on-board computer and ground station. It is crucial for the telemetry and telecommand system to have high reliability since the spacecraft operation is mostly based on the function of this system. The telemetry and telecommand(TTC) systems for KITSAT-1 and 2 had been developed under the consideratin of the space environment of Low-Earth-Orbit and the limited mass, volume and power of micorsatellite. Since both satellites were launched in August 1992 and September 1993 respectively, the have shown to be working successfully as well as the TTC systems on-board both satellites.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.33 no.5
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• pp.93-98
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• 2005

An Engineering Model(EM) of the Telemetry-Command Unit(TCU) for STSAT-2 was developed. The TCU of STSAT-2 has some improved features compared with that of STSAT-1. To reduce weight and size of TCU all logics are implemented in FPGA without CPU. EM I&T(Integration and Test) was successfully performed with no errors.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.187-192
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• 2009

Telecommand & telemetry control equipment is needed for the testing of the transponders during the development of satellite. This equipment must have a loopback function to perform the self testing without satellite. The fabrication of the designed system is easier and cheaper than the conventional testing system using direct modulation method. The measured results of fabricated equipment are satisfied with required specifications. A overall path loss of uplink and downlink is 47.8 dB and 42.6 dB, respectively. Also, IMD3 of uplink has measured 60.68 dBc at an output of -50 dBm.

• Current Industrial and Technological Trends in Aerospace
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.112-117
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• 2010

In this paper..We are introducing the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC 2007) decided upon new additional frequency allocations for Aeronautical Mobile Telemetry and International Telecommunication Union (ITU) that is leading United Nations agency for information and communication technology issues, World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) that revise the Radio Regulations, the international treaty governing the use of the radio-frequency spectrum. We are describing the international trends and korea frequency allocation tables revision after it has allocated to the aeronautical mobile telemetry frequency spectrum.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.33 no.7
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• pp.98-105
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• 2005

In this paper, the decryption function of CCSDS telecommand of CTU EQM for the security of communications satellite was verified. In order to intensify the security level of DES CFB decryption algorithm applied to CTU EM, 3DES CFB decryption algorithm using three keys is implemented in the CTU EQM. As the decryption keys increased due to the 3DES algorithm, the keys and IV are stored in PROM memory, and used for the telecommand decryption by taking the keys and IVs corresponding to the selected key and IV indexes from the memory. The operation of the 3DES CFB is validated through the timing simulation of 3DES CFB algorithm, and then the 3DES CFB core implemented on the A54SX32 FPGA. The test environment for the telecommand decryption verification of the CTU EQM was built up. Through sending and decrypting the encrypted command, monitoring the opcodes, and confirming LED on/off by executing the opcodes, the 3DES CFB telecommand decryption function of the CTU EQM is verified.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1995.10a
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• pp.380-383
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• 1995

Since the generation and transmission of telecommand in satellite monitoring and control system depend on the decisions of operators, it is possible that operators with different levels of knowledge may generate different telecommands in the same situation. Because of this reason, automation technology of satellite operation is being researched and developed to minimize the decision error due to the operator's lack of experience. This paper suggests a method of automated satellite control, which generates telecommands automatically using the knowledge of satellite subsystem engineers or specialists for the ground system. This method provides safe satellite operation and expansion of satellite life time by automatic generation of the telecommands, so that the operator's interrupt is minimized which provides the efficient satellite control.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.49 no.5
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• pp.417-424
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• 2021

The S-band telemetry and telecommand formats for geostationary orbit satellites should have sufficient reliability, since they transmit massive satellite health data and receive the mission commands in the 36,000km of the geostationary orbit. Also, they have to efficiently manage the large quantity of satellite health data under the limited data transmission rate. Cheollian-2A and 2B satellites were developed by Korea Aerospace Research Institute and launched at 2018 and 2020, respectively. Their missions are to conduct continuously the mission of Cheollian-1, which was the first geostationary orbit satellite of Korea. Therefore, the fundamental S-band data format design for Cheollian-2A and 2B should meet the requirements of Cheollian-1. Meanwhile the latest remote data processing techniques for these newest geostationary orbit satellites should be implemented. In this paper, the advanced S-band space data formats and management methods are proposed for more efficient data transmission, reception and operation with the limited data rate of the geostationary orbit satellites. The implemented results in the flight software of Cheollian-2A and 2B are described in detail.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.396-405
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• 2009

This paper describes playback downlink and telecommand uplink channel design performed for a transportable small-sized KOMPSAT(Korea Multi-Purpose Satellite) ground station. As a result of downlink channel design, required receiving performance was calculated from the threshold signal-to-noise ratio of playback signal and it was revealed that this performance can be guaranteed in 1.5 m ground station with 6.5 dB/K of G/T. For the uplink channel design, 40 dBW of EIRP was derived from the threshold signal-to-noise ratio of telecommand signal received at on-board receiver. The implemented small-sized ground station based on design was evaluated to be fully acceptable for KOMPSAT TT&C(Telemetry, Tracking and Command) system and playback downlink design without taking account of additional 3 dB system link margin was shown to be effective because it had provided constantly initial channel performance without any remarkable degradation over several years of tests with KOMPSAT and KOMPSAT-2, for both uplink and playback downlink in the elevation angle above $10^{\circ}$.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.57 no.7
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• pp.1285-1289
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• 2008

In this paper, we design COMS system bus that the 1553 Data Bus is able to link all the units of the satellite managed by the SCU using one Prime Data Bus and on Redundant Data Bus. Also we analyze MIL-STD-1553B bus load and relevant exchange memory budgets in system bus of the COMS satellite. This data is used in the satellite mission and software design by system engineer.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.80-89
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• 2010

Transponder is the significant equipment for the telemetry and telecommand operation between the ground station and the satellite. Recently, various transponder technology like Compact Standard Transponder(CST), Small User Transponder(SUT) for data relay satellite, Dual Mode TT&C Transponder(DMT) for large user, and Deep Space Transponder(DST) for deep space mission have been developed according to the communication method and user requirements. Especially, the transponder based on the digital technology comes into the spotlight in the satellite communication field. This paper describes the various analog transponder technology and the state-of-art digital transponder technology grafted onto the existing analog transponder technology.