Simulink Implementation of a Cislunar Communication System
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Howell, Brooke Madelyn
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Causey, Richard
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Nations and private entities alike plan to send manned spacecraft into cislunar space in the coming decade, with the United States even declaring a plan to establish a sustained presence at the lunar South Pole. With the anticipation of a continuous increase in users, the capability to provide reliable positioning, navigation, timing, and communications will become a necessity. A scalable, interoperable, and reliable method of communication in cislunar space must be developed in the near-term, in order to allow spacefaring nations to take advantage of the opportunities in science, technology, and defense, which cislunar space unquestionably provides. Additionally, the cislunar channel provides unique challenges not yet fully characterized or mitigated in other space communication protocols.
In order to address this problem, this research focused on developing a communication system which could successfully transmit and receive an OFDM waveform, even when anticipated cislunar channel impairments were applied. This system was produced in MATLAB, and subsequently in Simulink, so that it could be tested on hardware in the future. This research aimed not to create an immediately realizable communication system, but instead a starting block for continued development of a cislunar communication system.
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2023-12-06
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