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1 SSC16-VII-5 High bit-rate communication in X band for small earth observation satellites - Result of 505 Mbps demonstration and plan for 2 Gbps link - Hirobumi Saito Inst. Space and Astronautical Science, JAXA, Japan Hirobumi Saito (1), Tomoya Fukami (2), Hiromi Watanabe (2), Atsushi Tomiki (1), Takahide Mizuno (1), Naohiko Iwakiri (3), Shin-ichi Nakasuka (2), Takahiro Shinke (4), Kaname Kojima (4), Koichi Kawamoto (5), Osamu Shigeta (6), Hitoshi Nunomura (6), Yasuaki Kanda (7), Hideki Kayaba (8) 1

2 OUTLINE 1. Demonstration of High Speed Down Link 505Mbps from Small Earth Observation Satellite Hodoyoshi-4 (60kg). 2. Plan of 2-4Gbps from 100kg class Satellite for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Mbps Frequency :X-Band (8GHz) Small Atmospheric Attenuation, compared with Ka and Optical Band Band Width: Only 375 MHz High Spectral-Efficiency Modulation 64 Amplitude Phase Shift Keying 6bit in 1 symbol. 6 bit/hz Complex Constellation

3 Background 3 High Performance Earth Observation Satellites need High Bit Rate Down Link WorldView-3 (2,800 kg) 1.2 Gbps 8PSK in X-band SkySat-2 (100 kg) 300Mbps 8PSK in X-band 30 cm/pixel 85 cm/pixel High Speed Down Link is required for huge amount of observed Data Terra Bella

4 High Speed X-band Transmitter for Small Satellite Small Size 1.3kg & Small Power 22W 64APSK, 505Mbps 125MHz RF bandwidth in X-band Frequency RF Output Symbol Rate Modulation 8160± 60 MHz 2 W 100 Msps QPSK, 16QAM (option) 8PSK, 16APSK, 32APSK, 64APSK, 64QAM 72 to 540 Mbps Turbo (SCCC) LVDS 28 V, 22 W cm 1,330 g Data Rate ECC Data IF DCPower Size Mass Op Temp -20 to +50 C Total Doze 20 krad 4 Outlook of Developed X-Band Transmitter

5 Technology 1. Error Correction Code 5 High Performance Turbo Code(SCCC) CCSDS B-1 4dB higher Coding Gain than Reed-Solomon Zodiac Cortex HDR Demodulator is partially compatible to this ECC Turbo (CCSDS B-1 ACM17, 348Mbps Reed-Solomon(255,223) 350Mbps 4dB BER= QAM 350 Mbps (BER) Simulation

6 Technology 2. High frequency-efficiency Modulation 6 High Bit Rate CCSDS B-1 Combination of Modulation Scheme and ECC (Turbo) 100 M Symbol/sec In Signal I-Q plane QPSK 2bit/Hz 200 Mbps 300 Mbps 8-PSK 3bit/Hz 600 Mbps 64 Amplitude Phase Shift Keying 64APSK 6bit by one symbol 6bit/Hz 16APSK 4bit/Hz 400 Mbps 500 Mbps 32APSK 5bit/Hz Adaptive Modulation

7 Technology 3. RF Power Amplifier 7 1/3 Power of total TX consumes at RF power amplifier Amplifier must be used at high efficiency region due to power saving Input constellation is distorted by nonlinearity (AM-AM,AM-PM) Then Output constellation is degraded. Input IQ Constellation Nonlinear Amplifier Output I-Q Constellation Q I Output Power Output Phase Input Power 16 QAM 4bit by 1 symbol AM & PM Distortion Nonlinearity and Inter Symbol Interference

8 Technology 3. Nonlinearity of Power Amplifier 16 QAM Ideal Costellation AM/AM AM/PM IQ Constellation Q I 8 GaAs (AB-Class) 28% efficiency Output [dbm] Input [dbm] Phase Shift [degree] Input [dbm] Output [dbm] GaN (AB-Class) 47% efficiency Input [dbm] Phase Shift [degree] Input [dbm] Output [dbm] GaN (F-Class) 57% efficiency Input [dbm] Phase Shift [degree] Input [dbm]

9 Technology 4. On-Board Antenna 9 Small on-board MGA Active element Passive element Feed point 2 2 array Patch Antenna Size 7 7 cm Mass 69 g Gain 13.5 Beam Angle 30 Be- coated Kapton (UV shield)

10 Technology 5. S&X 3.8m Ground Antenna 10 S band (TT&C), X band (Data Down Link) dual frequency Antenna 3.8m ring-focus Gregorian Dia Gain 3.8 m 36 S band 47.5 X band 3.8m Antenna on ISAS building

11 Technology 6. Ground Receiver/Demodulator 11 Zodiac Cortex HDR Demodulator can process 64APSK in real time. However Expensive. Newly developed Non-Realtime Software Demodulator Ant chamber Operation Room IF signal is stored at Data recorder After Pass, Software Demodulation & Decoded with PC. Double Precision, Floating Process Small Demodulation Loss

12 Bit Error Rate vs Received Es/No (CCSDS131.2-B-1) M symbol/sec max 348 Mbps 16QAM Linear Channel Distortion Channel (EM+Demodulator) 505 Mbps at Es/No=20dB 64APSK 236 M 263 M 290 M 319 M 349 M 411 M 443 M 476 M 505 M 538 M Bit error rate Nonlinearity degrades 2dB for 64APSK Es/No [db]

13 On-Board 64APSK, 505 Mbps Experiment at Hodoyoshi-4 60kg Flight Model of Hodoyoshi-4 (Right) 13

14 Demonstration: Link Calculation 14 Es/No [db] Elevation [degree] 64 APSK 505M bps Error Free Es/No>19.5dB Elevation > 40deg Received Es/No vs Satellite Elevation General Parameter Value Unit Orbit altitude 628 km Elevation angle 45.0 deg. Satellite Transmitter Frequency 8160 MHz Symbol rate 100 Msps Amplifier output power 2 W Circuit loss 1 db Antenna peak gain 13.5 dbi Antenna pointing loss 0.5 db Channel Losses EIRP 15 dbw Free space loss db Atmospheric loss 0.5 db Ground Station Receiver Antenna peak gain 47.5 dbi System noise temperature 120 K Station G/T db/k Received C/No db Received Es/No 20.2 db

15 On-Board 64APSK, 505 Mbps Experiment Mbps 64APSK Demonstration with Hodoyoshi-4 Elevation 83.3deg,Slant Range 658 km Received C/No = 100 dbhz Received Es/No = 20 db Received I-Q Constration Demodulation(600 Mbps) : BER Decoding (505 Mbps) : BER < Power [db] Turbo Decoding : 7 Iteration Frequency [MHz] Received Spectrum of IF signal 64APSK Ant Pointing errors degrade 2.5dB (satelllite attitude control + ground antenna pointing error)

16 Possible Max Down Link Data (Calculation) Bit Rate 64APSK EL>24deg Bit rate [Mbps] QPSK 16QAM EL<24deg Elevation Elevation [degree] Gbytes / pass Time [second] Calculation Condition Max EL=86deg, BER < 10-6, Margin1 db QPSK + 16QAM + 64APSK 36.7 Gbytes / pass

17 Next Stage of 2-3Gbps Down Link in X band X-band for Earth Observation Satellite is MHz with 375MHz width Present System : 64APSK, 505Mbps with 125MHz bandwidth ( MHz) Next Stage : Two Channels of RHCP, LHCP, 64APSK with full band 375MHz bandwidth in X-band Power [db] Frequency [MHz] 64APSK 125MHz 505Mbps MHz Present 505 Mbps Next 1-2Gbps RHCP LHCP x 2 polarization Channel 64APSK 1-2Gbps 375MHz APSK 8400MHz 1-2Gbps 375MHz MHz

18 New Technologies for 2-4Gbps 18 Symbol Rate 100Msps 350Msps Wide Band RF Amplifier with Small Distortion. High Speed FPGA and DA Converter On-board RHCP/LHCP Antenna with XPD > 30dB Corrugated Horn Antenna + Septum Polarizer Larger Ground Antenna with XPD > 30dB ECC : CCDSD131.2-B-1(Turbo) DVB-S2X (LDPC) Plan to demonstrate in 2018

19 Dual Polarization MGA with high XPD 19 RHCP & LHCP for Independent 2 channel High Cross Polarization Discrimination (XPD>30dB) Corrugated Horn MGA 17dBi +Septum Polarizer + Coaxial Adaptor Total length 20cm Coaxial Adapter Septum Polarizer Corrugated Horn Ka band Dual Polarization Ant

20 Conclusion 20 Developed 64APSK Transmitter for 50kg-class Satellite Demonstrated 505Mbps Down Link with Hodoyoshi-4 Sat Non real-time Software Processing will Speed up with High Performance Graphic Processing Unit (GPU). Next Stage 2-4Gbps in X-band (DVB-S2X ) We are developing the next generation system Polarization Multiplication + 350M symbol /sec Plan to demonstrate in 2018

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