As the birds dropped out of the sky above the ground station, there might be
some objections. What has to happen for long range, gigabit bandwidth, is a wide
frequency range with little time on any particular frequency so that there is no
concentrated effects on a single frequency where heating would start to occur.
Frequency hopping over large spectrum is not a new thing, but it's something
that could alleviate a number of issues with safety.
Gregg Wonderly
W5GGW
On 2/10/2014 11:46 AM, Howie DeFelice wrote:
Just in case anyone was curious about the practicality of actually transmitting
WiFi from a cubesat, I did a quick link budget. Based on typical 802.11 specs,
the MDS of a receiver is about -90 dBm. The path loss at 2.4GHz between a
ground station and a satellite overhead in a 600Km orbit is a little over 155
dB. Assuming a zero gain antenna on the typical WiFi client radio, the required
EIRP from the cubesat is in the neighborhood of 4KW. I don't think we are
quite there yet with current solar cell technology.... not to mention the
difficulty keeping the PA cool :)
- Howie AB2S
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