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This work aims at verifying an innovative approach for link-design optimization of deep-space missions working at Ka band. The presented approach exploits a weather forecast (WF) model coupled with a radiopropagation model to maximize data-transfer during a Ka-band downlink transmission. First, we exploit radiosounding data to tune the WF model on the geographical site of interest. As second step,...
The optimization of the received data volume is one of the key objectives of deep-space missions. Recently, the Ka-band is being investigated for its possible employment as complementary channel of X-band that, to date, is one of the more diffuse for deep-space transmissions. In this context, Bepi Colombo (the ESA mission to Mercury planned in 2018) foresees both an X-band and a Ka-band channel for...
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