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Simulate, analyze, and test satellite communications systems and links

Satellite Communications Toolbox provides standards-based tools for designing, simulating, and verifying satellite communications systems and links. The toolbox enables you to model and visualize satellite orbits and perform link analysis and access calculations. You can also design physical layer algorithms together with RF components and ground station receivers, generate test waveforms, and perform golden reference design verification.

With the toolbox you can configure, simulate, measure, and analyze end-to-end satellite communications links. You can also create and reuse tests to verify that your designs, prototypes, and implementations comply with satellite communications and navigations standards, including DVB-S2X, DVB-S2, CCSDS, and GPS.

Tutorials

Satellite Scenario Modeling

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.

Satellite Link Budget

Get Started with Satellite Link Budget Analyzer App
Create, configure, analyze, and visualize link budgets for satellite communications.

Waveform Generation

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 various satellite communications standards.

Channel Modeling

Earth-Space Propagation Losses
Calculate the Earth-space propagation losses for the design of Earth-space Systems.

Featured Examples

Satellite Constellation Access to a Ground Station

Set up access analysis between a ground station and conical sensors onboard a constellation of satellites.

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GPS Waveform Generation

Generate a complex baseband GPS waveform.

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End-to-End DVB-S2 Simulation with RF Impairments and Corrections

Measure BER and PER for a DVB-S2 link with added RF impairments and AWGN.

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Interactive Learning

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.