Space-comms engineering layer — link budgets, ground stations + antennas, active/historical links, outages with RCA, and ranging + Doppler observations.
Space-comms engineering layer — link budgets, ground stations + antennas, active/historical links, outages with RCA, and ranging + Doppler observations.
What's included
Ground station + antenna registry — DSN, TDRSS, NEN, KSAT, AWS-GS, Viasat-RTE, plus your own private antennas
Interactive link-budget calculator (Friis equation + Eb/No vs. coding-scheme requirement) — verdict + margin + achievable data rate recompute live as you type
Saved link budgets per vehicle × station × band that pull antenna defaults (Rx gain, T_sys, Tx power) from the antenna registry
Active + historical link tracking with measured Eb/No, BER, and bitrate
Auto outage spawn — links transitioning to lost / degraded write a `commsOutages` row server-side
Critical outages auto-spawn Mission anomalies (category `comms`); closing the outage mirrors anomaly status mitigated
Ranging + Doppler observations — round-trip τ → range; Doppler shift → range-rate. Powers receiver pre-tuning and orbit determination feeds
Wally tools: list stations, run link budget, list active links, recent outages, predict pass Doppler + light time, log an outage from a chat message
Daily comms-health scan: queues an alert when 7-day MTBF drops below 24 h per vehicle
About this module
Comms is what flight-comms engineers reach for when they need a link budget that updates as they type. Ground station + antenna registry (DSN, TDRSS, NEN, KSAT, AWS-GS, Viasat-RTE, plus private). Interactive Friis link-budget calculator with Eb/No vs. coding-scheme verdict + margin + achievable data rate recomputing live.
Saved link budgets per vehicle × station × band. Active + historical link tracking with measured Eb/No + BER + bitrate. Auto-outage spawn — links transitioning to lost / degraded write a commsOutages row server-side, and critical outages spawn missionAnomalies.
What you can do with it
Design a Lunar S-band link budget for a 2026 commercial lander mission
Track every pass on a deep-space probe with measured vs. predicted Eb/No
Spawn an automatic missionAnomaly when a Mars link degrades below threshold
Plan a UHF backup link for a constellation satellite when X-band fails
Get this module
Free for all Turtini organizations.
Who it's for
- Space-mission operations engineers
- Smallsat operators planning ground-station contracts
- Aerospace students + faculty running mission-design coursework
Details
- Category
- Operations
- Pricing
- Free
- Built by
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