SPACELAB'S GROUND STATION

A ground station for transmiting telecommands and receiving telemetries of the SpaceLab's missions.

Overview • Licenses

Overview

This documentation provides a comprehensive overview of the UFSC ground station developed by SpaceLab, detailing its architecture, components, and operational capabilities. Designed to support ongoing satellite missions, the ground station features a robust and flexible system for reliable signal transmission and reception across multiple frequency bands. It’s key features are:

• Multi-band antenna systems (VHF, UHF, S-Band) mounted on an azimuth/elevation rotor for precise satellite tracking.
• Integrated protection and amplification with surge protectors, LNAs, and PAs to ensure signal integrity.
• Software Defined Radios (SDRs) for versatile signal processing.
• Remote operation and monitoring via a central server.

Dependencies

The following dependencies are required for building this project:

• sphinx-rtd-theme
• sphinxcontrib-bibtex

Building

After installing the required dependencies, just execute the following command:

make html

Generating a PDF

To generate the documentation in PDF format, execute the following command:

make latexpdf

License

This documentation is licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license.