Space capabilities

Autonomous space robot systems

Air-space networks Cranfield researchers worked with Inmarsat, the world leader in global, mobile satellite communications, on the benefits of using satellites for air-space networks. The main target of the research was to provide an initial assessment and review of communication and data link analysis relating to the C-130, GX-5 satellite link, providing a high-fidelity link budget assessment and focusing on path propagation between the Inmarsat GX constellation and commercial aircraft.

Transmitter System Losses

Cosmic Noise

Ionosphere

Depolarisation

Beam Spreading

Atmospheric Gases

Tropospheric scintillation

Atmospheric Absorption

Clouds

Attenuation

Sky Noise

Rain

Receiver System Losses Antenna misalignment Doppler effects

For further information, please contact: Dr Saba Al-Rubaye, Reader in Autonomous and Connected Systems E: s.alrubaye@cranfield.ac.uk

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