{"title":"Feasibility Study of Communication Access via Iridium Constellation for Small-Scale\u0000 Magnetospheric Ionospheric Plasma Experiment Mission","authors":"Hosub Song, Jaejin Lee, Y. Yi","doi":"10.5140/jass.2022.39.3.109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5140/jass.2022.39.3.109","url":null,"abstract":"The small-scale magnetospheric and ionospheric plasma experiment (SNIPE) is a\u0000 mission initiated by the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) in 2017 and\u0000 comprises four 6U-sized nano-satellites (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute\u0000 Satellite-1, KASISat-1) flying in formations. The main goal of the SNIPE mission is to\u0000 investigate the space environment in low Earth orbit at 500-km. Because Iridium &\u0000 GPS Board (IGB) is installed on the KASISat-1, a communication simulation is required to\u0000 analyze the contact number and the duration. In this study, communication simulations\u0000 between the Iridium satellite network and KASISat-1 are performed using STK Pro (System\u0000 Tool Kit Pro Ver 11.2) from the AGI (Analytical Graphics, Inc.). The contact number and\u0000 durations were analyzed by each orbit and date. The analysis shows that the average\u0000 access number per day is 38.714 times, with an average of 2.533 times per orbit for a\u0000 week. Furthermore, on average, the Iridium satellite communication is linked for 70.597\u0000 min daily. Moreover, 4.625 min is the average duration of an individual orbit.","PeriodicalId":44366,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82843218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}