The propagation and telecom experiments of the Alphasat Aldo payload (TDP5 Q/V band experiment)

Codispoti, G.; Riva, C.; Ruggieri, M.; Rossi, T.; Martellucci, A.; Rivera-Castro, Juan; Koudelka, Otto; Schoenuber, M.

doi:10.1109/eucap.2012.6206723

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“…Achieved results and the experience acquired from the Aldo Paraboni Payload operation within the Q/V band program will allow a more effective use of the Q/V spectrum and provide a fundamental contribution to the development of future HTS systems. 13,14 In particular, the architecture of the Aldo Paraboni Payload IMS was presented with an overview at system level and with the description of main components, their interaction and operational features.…”

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Alphasat Aldo Paraboni Payload Italian mission segment

Cornacchini

Bernardo

Falzini

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Summary In the framework of the ASI Q/V band program, the “Aldo Paraboni” Payload embarked on Alphasat is devoted to the exploitation and the investigation on communications at the Q/V frequency band. The operation of this experimental payload allowed to demonstrate the potential of advanced broadband satellite communications at the Q/V frequency bands and represents an important step toward the development of future High Throughput Satellite (HTS) systems. The Italian Mission Segment (IMS) represents the ground infrastructure which allows to perform communications experiments (propagation impairment mitigation techniques (PIMT)) at 40/50 GHz (Q/V band) and propagation experiments at both 20 GHz (Ka band) and 40 GHz (Q band) by operating the Aldo Paraboni Payload. The IMS was developed under the Italian Space Agency contract and developed by the Italian industry in accordance with the requirements defined for communications and propagation experiments by two principal investigators, appointed by the Italian Space Agency. The IMS consists of two transmitting/receiving ground stations and three control centers, while the space segment is represented by the Aldo Paraboni Payload, financed by Italy through the ARTES‐8 Program, developed by the European Space Agency and implemented by Italian space industries. The Aldo Paraboni Payload, also called technology demonstration payload #5 (TDP#5), has been embarked as piggyback on Alphasat satellite, an INMARSAT Commercial Telecommunication Geosynchronous satellite successfully launched on 25 July 2013, which uses the ESA‐developed Alphabus Platform and embarks other four technology demonstration payloads (TDPs). This paper presents an overview of the overall system composing the IMS, the functional architecture, main subsystems, and specific features related to the communication and propagation experiments. The ground station validation is also described, together with the description of the system test campaign, performed for functional and performance verification of the IMS. The campaign allowed to test the Q/V band communication functions and to perform the propagation experiment verification, operating the payload in loopback mode and in cross mode.

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Alphasat Aldo Paraboni Payload Italian mission segment

Cornacchini

Bernardo

Falzini

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“…Coverage areas of the Ka band (left) and Q band (right) beacons; © Space Engineering S.p.A [Colour figure can be viewed at wileyonlinelibrary.com]…”

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Receiver station in Budapest for Q/V band satellite site diversity and adaptive coding and modulation experiments with Alphasat

Csurgai-Horváth

2018

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The European Space Agency in cooperation with Inmarsat launched the Alphasat communication satellite in 2013, which hosts four technology demonstration payloads. One of them is the Aldo Paraboni payload composed of the Q/V band communication and Ka/Q band propagation experiments. The payload and the communication experiment are funded by the Italian Space Agency. Budapest University of Technology, Hungary in cooperation with Joanneum Research, Austria built a receiver station to conduct site diversity and adaptive coding and modulation experiments over the Q/V band satellite channel. The transmitter/receiver station in Austria and the receiver station in Hungary form a long-distance diversity system that is used to investigate the capabilities of the adaptive technique under various propagation conditions controlled by the local signal quality at the receiver site in Budapest. This paper provides a detailed overview of the diversity station in Budapest. The operation of the adaptive coding and modulation experiment is illustrated with measurements performed in 2017. KEYWORDS Alphasat, Q/V band communication experiment, site diversity, adaptive coding, and modulation 1 | INTRODUCTIONAlphasat is the largest European telecommunications satellite ever built with a total mass of greater than 6.6 tonnes at launch in July 2013. This satellite supplements Inmarsat's existing I-4 series, providing coverage over Europe, the Middle East, and Africa from its in-orbit geosynchronous location at 24.9°East with an inclination above the Equatorial plane not exceeding 3°. 1,2 The new high-power satellite platform, called Alphabus, was developed by Astrium and Thales Alenia Space under a joint contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) and Centre National d'ÉtudesSpatiales.In addition to the commercial payload, approximately 20% of the spacecraft's resources are dedicated to four hosted payloads, also called technology demonstration payloads, which were provided by ESA. One of these payloads is the Aldo Paraboni payload that is composed of the communication experiment (COMEX) payload in the Q/V band and the "scientific" (propagation) experiment (SCIEX) payload in the Q and Ka bands, which cover all of Europe. 1 The payload development was supported by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) as an in-kind contribution to the Alphasat project, which is executed by the ESA in the framework of the ARTES 8 Telecom program. 3,4 The Department of Broadband Infocommunications and Electromagnetic Theory at Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME-HVT) participates in both experiments by operating the receive-only stations. However, this article concentrates on the COMEX station, and the following short introduction of the SCIEX experiment may be advantageous for a complete overview of the Aldo Paraboni payload. The Aldo Paraboni propagation payload consists of two coherent beacons at 19.701 GHz with a linear vertical polarization and 39.402 GHz with a linear tilted 45°polarization. The coverage areas plotted in Figure 1 show that the...

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Model for synthesis of short-term tropospheric amplitude scintillation

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Capsoni

2016

2016 10th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)

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The propagation and telecom experiments of the Alphasat Aldo payload (TDP5 Q/V band experiment)

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Alphasat Aldo Paraboni Payload Italian mission segment

Alphasat Aldo Paraboni Payload Italian mission segment

Receiver station in Budapest for Q/V band satellite site diversity and adaptive coding and modulation experiments with Alphasat

Model for synthesis of short-term tropospheric amplitude scintillation

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