« Previous -
Version 3/11
(diff) -
Next » -
Current version
J. Simmons, 05/15/2016 12:03 pm
Link Budget References¶
Background Material¶
Example Calculations¶
- KickSat Ground Station Link Budget (MS Excel)
- Jan King's AMSAT link budget extensive (MS Excel)
Video Tutorials¶
These vidoes are proof of concept video tutorials, and will be replaced with a more polished version as time permits.- Link Budgets Part 1, Intro to Satellite Link Budgets
- Link Budget part 2, Transmission Segment
- Link Budget part 3, Trigonometry Refresher
- Link Budget part 4, Propagation Loss
- "Link Budget part 5, Ground Segment":
- "Link Budget part 6, Putting It All Together":
- "Link Budget part 7, Software Solutions":
Selected Link Budget Source Document¶
The Ground Sphere Mk 3 team has decided to build its Python Link Budget library on the calculations used in the KickSat Ground Station Link Budget. This spreadsheet includes nearly all of the required transmission effects and has been verified by comparing its results to manual calculations.