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2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
5. Spacecraft Communications
Authors : George Sebestyen, Steve Fujikawa, Nicholas Galassi, Alex Chuchra
Published in: Low Earth Orbit Satellite Design
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
RF communication is used to command the spacecraft from the ground, to have the spacecraft send Health and Status (Telemetry) about the condition of the spacecraft and to send payload data to the ground station(s). This chapter discusses spacecraft frequencies, communication link margins, Bit error rates and RF hardware.