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US 8,577,519 B1Granted
Rapidly deployed modular telemetry system
AssigneeThe United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
InventorsKosta A. Varnavas, William Herbert Sims, III
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Abstract
The present invention is a telemetry system, and more specifically is a rapidly deployed modular telemetry apparatus which utilizes of SDR technology and the FPGA programming capability to reduce the number of hardware components and programming required to deploy a telemetry system.
Claims26
A rapidly deployed modular telemetry system comprised of:
- at least one flight computer;
- at least one microcontroller;
- at least one FPGA component configured with CCSDS compliant software, said FPGA being operatively connected with said at least one microcontroller;
- at least one error-checking encoder component operatively connected with said microprocessor to perform at least one error-checking protocol;
- at least one flight computer interface operatively connected with said at least one FPGA and said at least one flight computer;
- at least one receiver deck;
- at least one transmitter deck;
- and
- at least one power source.
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A telemetry system for a micro satellite comprised of:
- at least one transmitter which transmits at least one telemetry signal to at least one flight computer interface;
- at least one interchangeable FEC error checking encoder comprised of a single FPGA into which an FEC error checking protocol has been embedded;
- at least one receiver;
- and
- at least one power source,
- wherein all other processing, error checking, modulation and demodulation are performed on said single FPGA.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.