Delivery of the GSDR engineering model and flight model as a flexible S-band communication subsystem to UARX Space Solution

Last week we delivered the engineering model and flight model of the Generic Software-Defined Radio (GSDR) to our partner UARX Space Solution (@UARX). The GSDR serves as an S-band communication subsystem in the demonstration mission “Orbit Solutions to Simplify Injection and Exploration (OSSIE)”. OSSIE's goal is a spacecraft that aims to bring payloads and micro satellites into further orbits that are not reached by the initial orbit of the launch vehicle. For this, a flexible and reliable communication system is necessary to compensate for the varying distances between the spacecraft and the ground stations and thus ensure constant communication. The GSDR is a radio platform developed at the institute that enables a wide range of applications and can be reconfigured in orbit. This means that different applications can be run on the same platform, even if they have completely different high-frequency properties, such as the carrier frequency, bandwidth or reception and transmission performance.