ESA Open Invitation To Tender AO8894
Open Date: 14/06/2017
Closing Date: 04/09/2017 13:00:00

Status: ISSUED
Reference Nr.: 17.112.06
Prog. Ref.: TRP
Budget Ref.: E/0901-01 – TRP
Special Prov.: AT+BE+CH+CZ+DE+DK+EE+ES+FI+FR+GB+GR+HU+IE+IT+LU+NL+NO+PL+PT+RO+SE+SI
Tender Type: C
Price Range: 200-500 KEURO
Products: Ground Segment / Ground Station / RF equipment / Transmitter and Receiver assemblies, Frequency converters, …
Techology Domains: Ground Station Systems and Networks / Ground Station System / Microwave and Optical Active/Passive Systems
Establishment: ESOC
Department: Ground Systems Engineering Department
Division: Ground Station Systems Division
Contract Officer: Bednarek, Maren
Industrial Policy Measure: C1 – Activities in open competition limited to the non-Larg…
Last Update Date: 14/06/2017
Update Reason: Tender issue

The direct sampling of 8 GHz signals will allow all the further signal processing to be conducted in the digital domain, thus implementing a Software Defined Radio (SDR) approach.The sampling of 8 GHz signals will also allow sampling at 2 Ghz as a by-product. Ka-band (32 Ghz) and K-band (26 GHz) will still be converted to 8 GHz using a single fixed frequency conversion before RF sampling. X-band sampling will allow TTC for earth observation, science in deep space and near earth, and exploration missions in S- or X-band. The Earth Observation wideband payload data sampling (8.025-8.400 GHz) will be included.The output of this activity will be a proofof concept of X-band sampling through validation at breadboard level.Potential technologies are photonic time stretch pre-processorfollowed by multi Giga Sample Per Second (GSpS) Analog to Digital converter. (ie up to 5 GSpS available at Texas Instrument).C1 :Activities in open competition limited to the-non-Large-System Integrators.

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