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Student Internship Projects 2020
Project “Sofia and Antarctic” by Pamela Kutsarova and Yaroslava Lebedeva
We are simulating Small Communication Satellite Mission for Enhancement of Antarctic Investigations.
We use one small satellite – CASTRA on low orbit, which is transmitting information between CASTRA, Sofia, Bulgaria Ground station and Bulgarian base, Livingston island, Antarctic Ground station.
This function can provide a range of critically important services for Antarctic stations and expeditions, such as: high-speed two-way back haul data transfer for scientific, safety and other applications using “store-and-forward” technology, off-line two-way operational communication services for professional, personal or rescue purposes, continental surface measurements of biological and natural phenomena;
Weather monitoring and forecasting, etc.
The proposed communication mode will be designed on a 50 kg small satellite at a 1500 km altitude near-to-polar orbit providing 11 Mbps in the C-band downlink channel during 15 min long sessions.
From the results of the simulation we can see that we have at least one pass with a good quality under the groundstations per day.