SATSOFT
TICRA
Satellite antenna coverage planning, gain assessment, and multi-beam antenna design for payload design and regulatory filings.
Technical specifications
- Feature
- Quickly select countries or draw polygons to use as coverage area definition
- Feature
- Synthesise contoured and spotbeams with or without pointing error from reflector or array antennas
- Feature
- Plot pattern contours and create performance tables of directivity, EIRP, G/T
- Feature
- Import measured or predicted antenna patterns to use in your analysis
- Benefit
- Efficient planning, designing, and marketing of communication satellite payloads
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- Conduct antenna trade-off studies
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- Prepare documents for ITU regulatory filings
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- Intuitive user interface
- Benefit
- Easy interface to POS and GRASP
About
SATSOFT is designed for communication satellite coverage planning, analysis, and preliminary antenna layout. Supplier-furnished antenna patterns can be imported and managed with the Pattern Data Manager, then inspected and visualised on a world map, while coverage polygons (from political borders or free-hand drawing) are easily enlarged to account for antenna or spacecraft pointing error. SATSOFT offers import of antenna patterns and simple, fast modelling using Gaussian beams with prescribed footprints; the optional Payload Antenna Planner (PAP) add-on provides physical optics (PO) analysis of array-fed offset reflectors and shaped reflectors as well as analytic direct-radiating phased arrays. Antenna patterns can be post-processed via Performance Tables (directivity, EIRP, XPD, min/max vs. pointing) and the Delta Pattern feature for comparing two patterns. SATSOFT seamlessly interfaces with other TICRA programs (GRASP, POS, QUPES, ESTEAM, CHAMP 3D), and pattern contours/polygons can be exported to ITU GXT, KML (Google Earth), and STK-compatible formats.
Documentation
No public datasheet yet — request the datasheet / ICD from the supplier.
