VULCAN WIRELESS, INC. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: Flexible communications payloads for small satellites are becoming more capable and ready

Description

Flexible communications payloads for small satellites are becoming more capable and ready for critical missions. As the role of the CubeSat and NanoSat continues to evolve communications payloads play a critical role in expanding the mission sets and tasks these satellites. Larger Geosynchronous based satellite systems are evolving and expanding their capacity. However, the small satellite can augment these larger national systems by providing improved reliability at higher latitudes and penetration into the urban canyon. The proposed technology will mitigate fading, increase user capacity and simplify user interfacing. Software defined radio processing will expand the channel capacity by an order of magnitude and implement cognitive radio techniques to increase user access and capacity.