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HMM<br />

Assessment Study<br />

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

February 2004<br />

page 399 of 422<br />

During Mars ascent phase, similarly to the DM the communications will be maintained using an<br />

UHF link with TV and a X-band link with the relay satellite and therefore with Earth G/S. UHF<br />

link will be the same than for DM and the same antenna will be used. As in DM, UHF and Xband<br />

MAV transponders are used. The only difference is the location of the three X-band patch<br />

antennas, which will be in the MAV capsule chassis.<br />

• MAV patch antenna<br />

• Relay antenna: 1m with steering mechanism.<br />

Uplink Downlink<br />

Frequency 7.23 GHz 8.5 GHz<br />

Tx power 65 W 65 W<br />

Modulation QPSK QPSK<br />

Coding Concatenated, Interleaving=5<br />

FER 10 -5<br />

Bit rate:<br />

Max distance 18600 Km<br />

Min distance: 16530 Km<br />

4.5.10.2.2 Contingency communications<br />

172 Kbps<br />

97 Kbps<br />

Table 4-71: X-band link MAV-Relay satellite.<br />

Direct communications with the Earth could be possible using the X-band patches antennas, but<br />

with a very low data rate. See TV chapter for data rates and link schemes.<br />

4.5.10.3 Budgets<br />

Unit<br />

Unit massTotal<br />

mass Power<br />

Number of units<br />

(Kg) (Kg) (W)<br />

UHF omni antenna 1 1.5 1.5<br />

X-band patch antenna 3 0.1 0.3<br />

UHF transceiver 2 1.0 2 10.0<br />

X-band transponder 2 4.6 9.2 20.0<br />

Global RFDU unit 2 1.2 2.4<br />

X-band TWT 2 0.8 1.6 120.0<br />

Harness 2.5<br />

Total: 19.5 150.0<br />

Table 4-72: MAV communications budget

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