Get Started with Satellite Communications Toolbox
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.
Tutorials
- Satellite Scenario Basics
Build complete satellite scenario simulation. - Model, Visualize, and Analyze Satellite Scenario
Model satellites in orbit, analyze access between the satellites and ground stations, and visualize fields of view and ground tracks of the satellites. - Get Started with Satellite Link Budget Analyzer App
Create, configure, analyze, and visualize link budgets for satellite communications. - Import Custom Scenario into Time-Varying Satellite Link Budget Analyzer
Model and import a satellite scenario in time-varying Satellite Link Budget Analyzer app. (Since R2024b) - Waveform Generation Workflow
Learn the workflow to generate satellite communications standards-based waveforms. - Create Configuration or System Objects
Create objects to store properties required for waveform generation and signal data recovery. - Generate Waveforms
Generate waveforms for these satellite communication standards — DVB-S2, DVB-S2X, DVB-RCS2, CCSDS HPE TM, CCSDS TM, and CCSDS TC. - Earth-Space Propagation Losses
Calculate the Earth-space propagation losses for the design of Earth-space systems.
Satellite Scenario Modeling
Satellite Link Budget
Waveform Generation
Channel Modeling
About Satellite Communications
- What Is Satellite Communications?
Learn the basics of communication using a satellite.
- GPS and How It Works
Learn about GPS, its segments, and how GPS and other GNSS signals work using the ranging and trilateration technique.
- GPS Signals
Describes the signal specifications of legacy (C/A and P-code) and modernized (L1C, L2C, and L5) GPS signals.
- Satellite Link Budget
Explore the factors that influence the satellite link budget analysis and derive the power budget equations for C/No and link margin.
- Optical Wireless Communications
Understand optical wireless communications and core components of free space optical communication (FSOC) and deep space optical communication (DSOC).
Featured Examples
GPS Waveform Generation
Generate a complex baseband GPS waveform.
CCSDS Optical High Photon Efficiency Telemetry Waveform Generation
Generate high photon efficiency waveform for free space optical communications systems as defined in CCSDS standard.
Model NR NTN Channel
Model NR NTN narrowband channel and frequency selective fading TDL channel.
Multi-Hop Satellite Communications Link Between Two Ground Stations
Set up multi-hop link between two ground stations.
End-to-End DVB-S2 Simulation with RF Impairments and Corrections
Measure BER and PER for a pilot-aided DVB-S2 link with added RF impairments and AWGN.
Videos
What Is Satellite Communications Toolbox?
A brief introduction to the toolbox.
Multi-Hop, Time-Varying Communications Link Analysis
Create a satellite scenario that models a multi-hop link with two satellites and
two ground stations.
Satellite Link Budget Analysis
Explore the Satellite Link Budget Analyzer app and analyze RF
propagation paths by predicting atmospheric losses as per ITU-R P.618.
