Bent Pipe Communication System

During my summer internship at Rincon Research Coorporation, I worked on a project with 4 other interns to simulate, and implement a small scale demonstration of a bent pipe communicaiton system. My specific tasks involved creating a simulation of the system using a Python web-based graphical user interface and CesiumJS. The simulation involved scraping publicly available information of recent low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite launches and propagrating TLE data for a dynamic visualization of ideal link opportunities between two ground stations and the LEO satellites. The Doppler shift, noise floor, and path loss were calculated for each link opportunity to inform a channel model and a random phase rotation was applied. Signal allignment and demodulation was performed to extract a message from the received signal.