A transportable radio-frequency system — a "suitcase", that is, a cabinet built to be moved between sites and returned to service without recalibration — for the check-out of a satellite payload.
IN SY TO held system responsibility in both hardware and software, and built four distinct subsystems for the interface towards the ground segment: discrete signal board, telecommand channel, telemetry channel and power lines with second-level control — an independent protection layered over the primary one, the architecture adopted when the downstream load cannot be replaced and a failure of the main protection is not an acceptable hypothesis.
The delivery also includes power distribution unit realization. The set of four interfaces is in itself the description of a complete EGSE capability: power, discretes, command and observation.
Role
R1 — System responsible for hardware and software. Scale: transportable cabinet, new build. Customer: an Italian satellite operator.
Work performed
- System design and development, hardware and software
- Power distribution unit realization
- Discrete signal board design and realization
- Telecommand channel design and realization
- Telemetry channel design and realization
- Design and realization of power lines with second-level control