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Assessment Study<br />

Report: CDF-20(A)<br />

February 2004<br />

page 110 of 422<br />

• housekeeping, commanding and software maintenance require up to two orders of<br />

magnitude more link capability<br />

• as for satellites one contact/day with feedback possibility is sufficient but also necessary<br />

• availability should exceed 99% for 8 hours/day contact<br />

• Essential link is required that guarantees communications in all conceivable contingency<br />

situations. Degradations with respect to the links above are acceptable.<br />

2.10.1.4.5 Communications link concept (cruise and at Mars)<br />

Essential link<br />

(operating under all failure scenarios, near real time, near 24-hour/day):<br />

X-band 70 m ground stations, MGA on-board<br />

• Crew – ground communications: e-mail<br />

• Essential housekeeping data downlink<br />

• Essential commanding capability to support on-board autonomy<br />

Basic RF link<br />

(near real time, near 24-hour/day, maximum outage 24-hour TBC):<br />

Downlink<br />

Based on a scaled up Ka-band implementation (70 m ground station, 4 m on-board terminal)<br />

Uplink<br />

Based on Ka-band with major improvements in the uplink data rate (by a combination of<br />

coded uplink, ground station high power amplifier power improvements, reduced losses, and low<br />

on orbit antenna and system temperatures.)<br />

• Crew – ground communications: (basic) video, voice, internet and e-mail<br />

• Housekeeping data, basic science data and software image downlink<br />

• Commanding, master plan uplink and software update<br />

High-performance optical down link<br />

(near real time, 24-hour/day capability (12 to 18 hours/day duty cycle), best effort):<br />

• Crew – ground communications: state of the art video, voice, and e-mail<br />

• Housekeeping data, science data and software image downlink<br />

• High-performance communications are vulnerable (e.g. Ka-band and optical links).<br />

Redundancy on a lower performance level is required. Communications shall be<br />

organised hierarchically. In case of loss of the high performance link, essential data still<br />

have to reach the ground (either along another path or in the same path with increased<br />

signal to noise ratio).<br />

2.10.1.4.6 Tracking<br />

• The infrastructure shall be able to track orbits with the following methods:<br />

• Doppler<br />

• Ranging<br />

• GPS or Galileo in Earth orbit

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