SYSTEMFLOW AND TALON WIDEBAND SIGNAL RECORDERS
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USE CASE
Multi-Static Triangulation Satellite Tracking System
Three satellite ground stations located hundreds of miles apart must be capable of
receiving signals from one or more satellites to determine the exact position and altitude
of unknown satellites.
Three recording systems, one at each, must
synchronously record the same signal from each satellite
signal so that the relative difference in phase of the
received signals can be used to compute the distances
between the satellite and each ground station. Since
the base stations are remote and unattended, they
must operate continuously for at least 24 hours. The
satellite IF signal bandwidth is less than 150 MHz, so
a sample rate of at least 375 MS/sec is required.
The three recorders are synchronized using a GPS
receiver that provides a 10 MHz frequency reference
for the recorder sample clock generator, a real-time
clock, and 1 PPS signal to be used as a hardware trigger.
The recorders can be remotely programmed across
the internet to simultaneously start the recordings
in each location on the same 1 PPS tick. Since this
is ground station installation, the Mercury Talon
RTS 2707-140 rackmount laboratory environment
recorder is chosen with a 400 MHz 14-bit A/D front
end and up to 100 TB of storage capacity. This
provides over 34 hours of continuous recording.
