A Ka-Band Receiver Front-End With Noise Injection Calibration Circuit for CubeSats Inter-Satellite Links

Alimenti, F.; Mezzanotte, P.; Simoncini, Guendalina; Palazzi, Valentina; Salvati, Raffaele; Cicioni, Giordano; Roselli, L.; Dogo, Federico; Pauletto, Simone; Fragiacomo, Mario; Gregorio, A.

doi:10.1109/access.2020.3000675

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“…SIW technology has been considered at lower frequencies, including for instance X-band for data transmission systems [75], and even C-band for communication payload high-permittivity ceramic filters [76]. Inter-satellite link (ISL) is another field of application where some developments are reported using SIW technology, including for example passive array antennas at V-band [77] and integrated filters at Ka-band [78].…”

Section: A Satellite Ground and Space Segmentmentioning

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Substrate Integrated Transmission Lines: Review and Applications

2021

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Substrate Integrated Transmission Lines: Review and Applications

2021

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“…First, using a nonlinear least-square filter, and second, EKF estimation systems, which are studied in [ 17 , 18 ], respectively. A novel K-band receiver front-end is designed and investigated in [ 19 ]. The receiver was presented for inter-satellite communication between LEO and GEO.…”

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Multi-Constellation Software-Defined Receiver for Doppler Positioning with LEO Satellites

Farhangian

Landry

2020

Sensors

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A Multi-Constellation Software-Defined Receiver (MC-SDR) is designed and implemented to extract the Doppler measurements of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite’s downlink signals, such as Orbcomm, Iridium-Next, Globalstar, Starlink, OneWeb, SpaceX, etc. The Doppler positioning methods, as one of the main localization algorithms, need a highly accurate receiver design to track the Doppler as a measurement for Extended Kalman Filter (EKF)-based positioning. In this paper, the designed receiver has been used to acquire and track the Doppler shifts of two different kinds of LEO constellations. The extracted Doppler shifts of one Iridium-Next satellite as a burst-based simplex downlink signal and two Orbcomm satellites as continuous signals are considered. Also, with having the Two-Line Element (TLE) for each satellite, the position, and orbital elements of each satellite are known. Finally, the accuracy of the designed receiver is validated using an EKF-based stationary positioning algorithm with an adaptive measurement matrix. Satellite detection and Doppler tracking results are analyzed for each satellite. The positioning results for a stationary receiver showed an accuracy of about 132 m, which means 72% accuracy advancements compared to single constellation positioning.

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“…A wireless receiver is a key component of the satellite communication systems. Many Ka-band receivers have been reported in literatures using SiGe BiCMOS, GaN, and CMOS technologies [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]. Yet these receivers are only for the communication purpose, not supporting a radiometric function capable of dynamically measuring the atmospheric conditions.…”

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A Highly-Integrated Reconfigurable Ka-Band Receiver Supporting Active and Passive Detections in a 90-nm CMOS Technology

Huang

Chiu

2021

IEEE Access

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A highly-integrated reconfigurable Ka-band receiver in a 90-nm CMOS technology is proposed for the applications of satellite wireless communications, remote sensing of atmospheric conditions, and detection of space debris. The proposed receiver can be reconfigured to support active-receiver and passivereceiver modes. At the active-detection mode, it works as a direct-conversion coherent receiver for highspeed and global-coverage satellite communications. Measured conversion gain of 45.2 dB, noise figure of 7.6 dB, and output 1-dB compression point of -6.8 dBm can be acquired at 35 GHz while only consuming 54.4 mW from a 1.2-V supply. As switched to the passive-detection mode, it can potentially operate as a noncoherent radiometer to sense atmospheric conditions which are employed to dynamically compensate the atmospheric attenuation to mitigate the fading effects. This enables the satellite communication systems to establish reliable links. Moreover, the proposed passive receiver can be utilized to detect the space debris. Collisions can be avoided and hence satellite lifetime can be enhanced. Experimental results show that the proposed receiver at the passive-detection mode exhibits voltage responsivity of 1.2 GV/W and noise equivalent power (NEP) of 2.1 aW/Hz 0.5 at 35 GHz. The power dissipation is only 49.6 mW from a supply voltage of 1.2 V. To the best of the authors' knowledge, the proposed receiver owns the highest responsivity and the lowest NEP at Ka-band reported thus far. It is also the first receiver capable of being reconfigured to support active-detection and passive-detection modes according to different application scenarios.INDEX TERMS Reconfigurable, Ka-band, CMOS, active receiver, passive receiver, satellite communications, radiometer, effect of fading, space debris.

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A Ka-Band Receiver Front-End With Noise Injection Calibration Circuit for CubeSats Inter-Satellite Links

Cited by 14 publications

References 33 publications

Substrate Integrated Transmission Lines: Review and Applications

Substrate Integrated Transmission Lines: Review and Applications

Multi-Constellation Software-Defined Receiver for Doppler Positioning with LEO Satellites

A Highly-Integrated Reconfigurable Ka-Band Receiver Supporting Active and Passive Detections in a 90-nm CMOS Technology

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