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Objectives
The objective of the project is, building on the heritage from Kongsberg Seatex’ three exisiting generations of SAT-AIS receiver, to meet future demands for AIS and SAR satellites. To fulfil the increased need for a space qualified high performance AIS receiver to fit into nano-, micro- and small satellites. Another important part of the project is to develop and qualify innovative technologies that will allow KSX to expand its SAT-AIS receiver product range by making use of latest, low power and highly integrated FPGAs.
The project will design, manufacture, assemble, test, qualify and deliver a SAT-AIS receiver in compliance with the mission requirements for the Norwegian NORSAT-1 mission. The design has also secondary objective to be compliant to the requirements for the parallel ARTES 21 SAT-AIS micro-satellite project (named E-SAIL).
Challenges
This project has the following main challenges:
- Nano- and microsatellites have often very limited power budget. The challenge of the NAIS receiver development is to achieve a product that fits into the power/mass/accommodation constraints of the small satellite market while addressing also the performance and scalability required to target larger satellites that typically are designed for longer life-time missions.
- Design a state-of-the-art fully in-orbit reconfigurable SDR design using the latest developments in modern ruggedized components and at the same time achieve a radiation hardened design.
Meeting the very demanding EMC, EMI and RFI requirements from external and internal noise sources.
Plan
The activity was Kick-off in February 2014. The Critical Design Review took place in December/January 2015 and the Qualification and Acceptance Review in planned for June/July 2015.
Current Status
The manufacturing process has finalised in March/April and the activity has entered in April in the qualification and acceptance test phase.
