Design and Study of an Antenna System for Receiving Telemetry Information from Spacecraft Cubesat

Abstract

The last few years can be called a period of rapid heyday in the development, manufacture and launch into space of nanosatellites, the number of which in near-earth orbits is estimated at thousands of pieces. Despite the minimum of on-board equipment, there is a very wide range of tasks they perform – scientific research, weather monitoring, obtaining photo and video materials, biological experiments, and teaching students. One of the problems of transmitting useful information from onboard is the short flight time of a spacecraft in the visibility zone of a ground station, which requires a large number of ground tracking stations. This article is devoted to the development and study of a ground tracking station, which solves the problem of pointing receiving antennas to spacecraft and receiving useful information from them.