Design, Construction and Testing of a Low Cost Ground Sta-tion for CubeSat with IoT-LoRa Technology
Abstract
This research article presents the design and construction of a low-cost ground station, consisting of a Yagi antenna, Low Noise Amplifier (LNA), and a LoRa receiver node, enabling the reception of CubeSat signals utilizing LoRa technology. The design incorporates general antenna and electronic amplifier design concepts and was validated through laboratory tests assessing elec-trical characteristics, signal radiation, and frequency response. This setup successfully received telemetry data from LoRa-based CubeSat satellites.
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- Data curation
- Formal Analysis
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- Conceptualization
- Formal Analysis
- Investigation
- Methodology
- Software
- Validation
- Visualization
- Writing - original draft
- Conceptualization
- Data curation
- Formal Analysis
- Investigation
- Methodology
- Software
- Validation
- Visualization
- Writing - original draft
- Writing - review & editing
- Conceptualization
- Data curation
- Formal Analysis
- Investigation
- Methodology
- Software
- Supervision
- Validation
- Visualization
- Writing - original draft
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