Calibration Ground Station Specifications

The Calibration Ground Station is located in White Sands, NM.

• Lattitude: +32.50833 degrees North

• Longitude: -106.6067 degrees West

Antenna:

• Circularly polarized horn antenna

• Beamwidth (3 dB): 20 deg

• Directivity: 20.09 dB

• Effective Area: -20.08774 dB (0.0098 sq. m)

Signal Conversion:

• Carrier Frequency: 13.402 GHz

• First IF stage: 395 MHz (25 MHz beamwidth)

• Second IF stage: 35 MHz (2 MHz beamwidth)

System:

• System Gain: 56.24 dB

• A/D converter: 12-bit (-2048 to +2047); Gain of -33.1133 dB

• Samplerate: 5.1875 Msamples / s

• System noise temperature 259 K

• LNA noise figure: 1.5 dB (120 K)

• Overall receiver noise figure: 2.38 dB (212 K)

 

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