Open

GT17-883GS ALL-DIGITAL GROUND STATION

Open call · deadline 2026-09-21 (32 days left at last rebuild).

ReferenceAO-1-13574
Source programmeesa
Typetender
SegmentOpen Competition
Statusopen
Closing date2026-09-21
Last updated2026-08-14

What this call is about

The signal processing approach of satellite ground station back-ends is undergoing a major conceptual changeworldwide: instead of processing the signal in the back-end in the classical way with a dedicated up-/ downlinkchain, there is the more flexible approachof sampling the signal directly before transmission /…

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