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Optimize Mission Requirements

A successful mission requires more than just an optimized mission plan and path. Engineers must also develop advanced technology for spacecraft systems. Across various disciplines, engineers must create optimized communications, remote sensing, and navigation technologies for their space missions.

Preparing Complex Space Mission Design Components

As space becomes increasingly congested and contested, the demand for robust communications, high-resolution remote sensing, and other advanced technology is greater than ever. Engineers and innovators must achieve a few key goals when designing and developing these assets to make mission plans a reality.

  • Design Secure, Resilient, and High-Performance Communications

    Satellite communications evolve to meet global connectivity demands through innovative spectrum management, enhanced signal integrity, secure data transmission, and agile deployment strategies for future advancements.

  • Developing Electro-Optical Sensing

    Critical missions in the defense, commercial, and scientific sectors rely on high-resolution imagery as well as advanced and precise sensing capabilities to succeed. Engineers must focus on imaging precision, sensor performance, cost-efficiency, and providing actionable data, insights, and more to excel and stay competitive.

  • Advancing Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)

    Remote sensing and imaging require continuous functionality for disaster management, defense intelligence, and environmental monitoring, focusing on enhanced resolution, data accuracy, and real-time processing.

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Solutions to Solve Mission Challenges

Whether you’re building satellites for Earth observation, global communications, or deep space navigation, designing assets that can withstand the harsh space environment is non-negotiable. Ansys brings a powerful, integrated suite of multiphysics tools to help you engineer smarter, faster, and with confidence.

Satellite Antenna Arrays Platform Integration

Replace bulky waveguide antennas with compact, high-gain antennas that enable multi-band coexistence and predict the impact of the satellite platform on antenna performance.
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Satellite Antenna Beamforming

The transition to electronically steered antennas enhances data rates and reliability. They feature adaptive beam steering for precise tracking and a low-profile design for easy maintenance and quick part replacement.
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RF Performance in Space

RF multipaction and discharge pose reliability risks in satellite communication by causing signal degradation, power loss, increased noise, and reduced efficiency, often requiring additional shielding or detuning for mitigation.
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Mission-Based Antenna Performance Verification

The tasks involve predicting satellite communication performance, designing and simulating antenna modules, assessing antenna performance pre-launch, and generating reports and link budget analyses for mission evaluation.
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STOP Analysis of High Power Lasers

High-powered laser beams generate thermal stresses in optical components, degrading beam quality. To address this, optimize optical parameters and enhance collaboration between engineering teams for better performance under realistic conditions.
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Sensor Modeling for EOIR Systems in Space

Enhance innovation through improved collaboration in design and analysis, enabling early issue detection, quicker product development, and fewer prototype cycles, resulting in significant resource savings and faster time to market.
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Radar Sensor Modeling

Engineers need to comprehensively model radar system integration, including platform geometry, antenna behavior, target positioning, and environmental factors, while also evaluating the operational effectiveness of candidate radar systems against realistic targets.
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RCS Generation, Visualization, and Implementation

Generate radar cross-section (RCS) measurements to examine vehicle and equipment designs, visualize RCS data in a 3D environment to analyze signature behavior, and evaluate performance against different radar collection modes.
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Data and Image Visualization

ntegrate radar and electro-optical images into the correct geometry, synchronize sensor data with the collection scenario, and ensure model alignment with the collected data.
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“Simulation is what you need to do to really verify and validate that this thing is going to perform in a space environment. ”

— Callie Lissinna, Verification and Validation Lead and Co-founder, Wyvern
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“It saves costs, it saves lots of time... and really it just means that we're able to build things that probably would be impossible if we couldn't simulate at all. ”

— Christian Kiel, VP of External Relations
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Engineering Resilient Space Systems

From mission planning to component-level reliability, explore the challenges and solutions faced by the innovators developing the next generation of robust spacecraft and space systems.
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