Satellite Communications Toolbox
Simulate, analyze, and test satellite communications systems and links
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Satellite Communications Toolbox provides standard-based tools for designing, simulating, and verifying satellite communications systems and links. It enables orbit propagation and visualization for large satellite constellations. You can use the toolbox to support scenario modeling for time-varying visibility and link budget analyses with satellites, aircraft, and other mobile platforms in a single scenario.
The toolbox enables no-code link budget analysis with visualization-based tools for sensitivity and availability analysis. You can generate standard-based DVB-S2/S2X/RCS2, GPS, and CCSDS waveforms, suitable as golden references for design verification. With Satellite Communications Toolbox, you can use standard-based reference receiver designs as initial prototypes for more complex designs. You can also use standard-based satellite channel models to support link simulations for RF and optical links.
Model satellites with two-body, SGP4, or SDP4 orbit propagators. Visualize 2D and 3D satellite orbits including field of view, ground tracks, and sky plots for navigation. Generate satellite constellations from TLE, SEM almanac, OMM, and RINEX files, or from ephemeris data.
Analyze line-of-sight access and link closures between satellites and aircraft, ground vehicles, ships, and other mobile platforms. Simulate multihop communications links between ground stations.
Configure, analyze, and visualize link budgets for satellite communications. Analyze availability with the ITU P.618 propagation loss model. Analyze sensitivity with custom line and contour visualizations.
Generate standard-based waveforms for satellite communications (DVB-S2/S2X/RCS2 and CCSDS TC/TM/HPE) and navigation (GPS and NavIC). Use waveforms as golden references for your design.
Use the ITU-R P.618 propagation loss model to design Earth-space links. Analyze space-based 5G links with the 5G non-terrestrial network (NTN) channel. Simulate deep space optical links with a Poisson channel.
Simulate satellite communications links using 5G NTN, DVB-S2/S2X/RCS2, GPS, and CCSDS waveforms. Use receivers built with editable MATLAB code to perform all synchronization operations. Analyze link performance by computing bit error rate (BER) and packet error rate (PER) metrics.
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