Can You Hear Me Now?
New generation communication
Summary
Since communication from Earth with the astronauts on Mars has become a difficult challenge, we decided to solve the problem by launching three satellites that work to amplify the data. There will be a moon at the planet Earth and the second moon in the space between them liberated so that it becomes easy to change its position and the third at Mars will be moved The data from the first satellite to the second satellite and then the third satellite at Mars, each of which amplifies the data, so it arrives faster.
How We Addressed This Challenge
The signal to and from Mars takes three minutes to the nearest point and 22 minutes to the farthest point, so we decided to solve the problem by using three satellites, the first will orbit around the Earth at a distance of 36,000 km, while the second will be liberated until it becomes easy to change a topic to suit Earth and Mars will move for 15 years, while the third will orbit Mars.
The first satellite receives the waves from the terrestrial broadcast station and the command and then amplifies them so that it can continue its path to the second satellite, so it receives and amplifies it in order to reach the third satellite and receives it and sends it to the various receivers on Mars, thus increasing the speed of data transmission.
The satellites will be launched in 2022 in November or September, because every 26 months the distance between Mars and Earth is shorter than usual, so that the distance is 55.6 million kilometers, which it travels within six months.
This project is very important as astronauts suffer from long waiting for messages and commands from each other, and this may cause many disasters and damages because there are some commands that do not require waiting and must be transferred very quickly and inform the astronauts about them as much as possible to avoid falling into great danger, Therefore, the project of rapid communication between astronauts has become one of the most necessary and effective projects that must be taken into account and implemented to reduce the damage of slow communication and to obtain the highest speed and efficiency during the transfer of requests and missions that may be a major development point in the field of space communication.
The data is sent directly to the spacecraft without passing any satellites to amplify it, so the matter has become easier and faster now by applying our idea.
We aspire to reduce the data transmission time to one minute or less .
How We Developed This Project
We developed it by increasing the speed of data access, and we all have a passion for space and for NASA, so we decided to present such a useful idea and we will show you the tools that we used.
-Three communication satellites
-Three radio frequency amplifiers
-Three solar panels with a capacity of 600 watts 3 meters x 7.9 meters
-Three high gain antennas with a diameter of 1.5 meters
-Three launch missiles
*Programming languages : c , c++ , python .
*Matlab
We encountered some problems in calculating distances, time and positions of the satellites, but we have solved them all, and now we hope to implement our idea because we know how useful it is and we trust its result.
We aspire to reduce the data transmission time to one minute or less .
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
From the agency, I got acquainted with the mechanisms of satellite communication work, including providing improved satellite services Intelsat 740, knowledge of the Earth's orbits for satellites, and a short history of satellite communications, and used this data to identify our communication satellites, review the orbits of Mars for the presence of one of our satellites on it, and review pictures All satellites available, wavelength and distances required calculation
Project Demo
http://promp.eb2a.com/ALFM.mp4
Project Code
Data & Resources
Biswas, A., & Piazzolla, S. (2003). Deep-space optical communications downlink budget from Mars: System parameters. IPN Progress Report, 42(154), 0-1.
Abilleira, F., & Shidner, J. D. (2012). Entry, descent, and landing communications for the 2011 Mars Science Laboratory.
Boroson, D. M., Biswas, A., & Edwards, B. L. (2004, June). MLCD: Overview of NASA's Mars laser communications demonstration system. In Free-Space Laser Communication Technologies XVI (Vol. 5338, pp. 16-28). International Society for Optics and Photonics.
D. Edwards, C. (2007). Relay communications for Mars exploration. International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking, 25(2), 111-145.
https://www.universetoday.com/14824/distance-from-earth-to-mars/