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Space Micro, powered by Voyager Space, an engineering-driven supplier of affordable, high-performance, radiation-hardened communications, electro-optics, and digital systems for use in commercial, civil, and military space applications around the world, has announced the successful performance of its Software Defined Radios (SDRs) on Missile Defense Agency\u2019s (MDA) CubeSat Networked Communications Experiment (CNCE) Block 1. Initially launched in June 2021 and completed in March 2022, CNCE Block 1, which is part of MDA\u2019s Nanosat Testbed Initiative (NTI), used small, low-cost satellites to demonstrate networked radio communications between nanosatellites while in orbit.<\/p>\n
MDA deployed two CubeSats developed by Space Micro with integrated radio frequency (RF) payloads based on its \u03bcSDR-C family of small form factor software-defined radios. MDA tested Space Micro\u2019s SDRs at various distances, formations, and orientations, all of which successfully communicated with each other and ground nodes. This demonstration helps support the development of U.S. missile defense technology and architecture.<\/p>\n
SDRs can be re-programmed on orbit making them desirable in today\u2019s rapidly changing world. Space Micro designed these particular radios, which are a precursor to the Company\u2019s successful Nanocom family of SDRs, with the additional ability to create and operate within an ad-hoc communication network, similar to a terrestrial Wi-Fi network.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are proud to support MDA as they bolster our national defense, and to further demonstrate the capabilities and reliability of our RF radio frequency payloads for inter-satellite communications,\u201d said David R. Czajkowski, Space Micro CEO.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Space Micro team continues to demonstrate flight-proven solutions that provide value to our national defense capabilities,\u201d said Matt Kuta, President, and COO of Voyager Space. \u201cThis successful demonstration of SDR technology is a critical step forward for the future of in-space communications.\u201d<\/p>\n
MDA retired the Block 1 satellites in March 2022 and they will de-orbit and burn up harmlessly in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n
Space Micro\u2019s SDR product line comprises several models: The \u00b5SDR-C targets UHF, S-Band, L-Band, and low C-Band applications, the more powerful Nanocom targets higher frequency, higher data rate, and more processor-intensive RF applications, and the \u00b5XBT X-Band Transponder is slated for several Artemis programs. Space Micro legacy S-band, X-band, and Ka-Band radios are in orbit today on NASA IRIS, an observation mission of the solar atmosphere, and NASA TESS, an exo-planet survey mission to provide prime targets for the James Webb Space Telescope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Space Micro, powered by Voyager Space, an engineering-driven supplier of affordable, high-performance, radiation-hardened communications, electro-optics, and digital systems for use in commercial, civil, and military space applications around the world, has announced the successful performance of its Software Defined Radios (SDRs) on Missile Defense Agency\u2019s (MDA) CubeSat Networked Communications Experiment (CNCE) Block 1. Initially launched […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[94,20],"class_list":["post-9208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-satcom-transceivers","tag-satellite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}