Budget spreadsheets available to download

One of the biggest challenges any satellite communications engineer has is to develop a link budget that shows what might work and what won't!

At the STEC 2005 Conference held in Aarlborg in April, and previously reported on ANS, Jan King briefly showed his suite of graphic spreadsheets which help satisfy this need.

It is fully annotated with guidance notes and includes graphical representations of orbit data, antenna radiation patterns etc.

As an added benefit, he has also produced an on-board power budget spreadsheet and one covering the mass budget.

All of these are now available for download from the link at http://www.amsat.org.uk/iaru

It is anticipated that a short presentation of these exciting tools will be given during the AMSAT-UK Colloquium which will be taking place at the University of Surrey between July 29-31st http://www.uk.amsat.org/Colloquium/

cheers
Graham

[ANS thanks David Johnson, G4DPZ, for the above information]

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