Nanosatellite ADS-B Receiver Prototype for Commercial Aircraft Detection

Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) is a surveillance technology applied to aircrafts for air traffic control with GPS and satellite based. ADS-B worked by receive messages from the aircraft which sends information periodically. At this moment, not all areas are covered by ADS-B. To obtain ADS-B data from the aircraft required a device consisting of a computer, a radio receiver and an antenna to obtain some real time flight information. This project is about designing a prototype for the nanosatellite that acts as a receiver of ADS- B messages that transmitted by the aircraft with a working frequency of 1090MHz and using RTL-SDR RTL2832U as the receiver and Raspberry Pi 3 Model B as On Board Data Handling (OBDH). In this paper, the prototype of ADS- B payload has been successfully designed and implemented. ADS-B payload have a success rate of 91.3% and an accuracy rate of 98.45% in the area of Telkom University. For measurements in the Ciburial area, Bandung, it have a success rate of 90.62% and an accuracy rate of 99.25%. The farthest distance obtained by the payload is 85.30 Km. The payload successfully storing data with. txt file extension format on 0.868 seconds/message.