Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

Design and flight results of the VHF/UHF communication system of Longjiang lunar microsatellites

  • Mingchuan Wei,
  • Chaoran Hu,
  • Daniel Estévez,
  • Mier Tai,
  • Yuhao Zhao,
  • Jiahe Huang,
  • Cees Bassa,
  • Tammo Jan Dijkema,
  • Xibin Cao,
  • Feng Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17272-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

Read online

Satellites with amateur radio communication capabilities have not been operated in lunar orbit before. Here, the authors present the design and performance of a VHF/UHF software-defined radio developed for and tested on lunar microsatellites.