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Top Subsystems Ground Station System

What is Ground Station?

Once satellite is launched into orbit, radio is the only method to communicate with it. Ground Station Subsystem operates satellites with antennas, transcievers and so on.

Ground Station Communication Bands

• Command Uplink：144MHz-Band
• Telemetry & Amateur Service Downlink：430MHz-Band GMSK-FM 9600bps / AFSK-FM 1200bps
• Beacon：430MHz-Band CW(Morse)
• Amateur Service Uplink：1200MHz-Band GMSK-FM 9600bps

Ground Station Block Diagram

Tokyo Tech's Ground Station has 4 bands for Cute-1.7 + APD Series.

Ground Station Appearance

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Antenna（144MHz Band Dual-Stack Yagi, 430MHz Band Quad-Stack Yagi, 1.2GHz Band Parabolic）

How to receive & process the data

If you want to know about how to receive radio from the Cute-1.7 + APD II and process the received data, please see "How To Receive".

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