| dc.description.abstract | The Ionospheric Dynamics Exploration and Attitude Subsystem Satellite (IDEASSat) is a 3U CubeSat which has been funded in part by the Taiwan National Space Organization (NSPO) and developed by National Central University (NCU), Taiwan. IDEASSat was developed to provide in-situ measurements of the Earth’s ionosphere to quantify ionospheric variability and irregularities. IDEASSat was successfully launched aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 launch vehicle (Transporter-1) on January 24th, 2021 and decommissioned on September 2nd, 2021. During the mission duration, IDEASSat received uplinked commands, and downlinked flight data successfully to provide information on the on-orbit performance of the spacecraft for evaluation and experience for future missions.
The NCU satellite ground station is located on the 10th floor of the Chien-Shiung building. The NCU ground station has the capability to transmit in the UHF band and receive in the UHF band and S band, and provides control and monitoring services for spacecraft developed under the International Satellite Program in Research and Education (INSPIRE) consortium.
The thesis will introduce and discuss the design and implementation of the NCU satellite ground station. The thesis includes the link budget, communication hardware, software defined radio (SDR), satellite telemetry and command coding, user interface design and integration, flight performance results of the NCU ground station, as well as the challenges and lessons learned in the development of the NCU ground station. | en_US |