First time development of an on-board autonomous digital beamforming of multiple beams for small/compact new space payloads, with medium/large number of channels supported. The innovation also relies on the number of channels, dynamic beamforming, low power.
The activity will review the digital beamforming requirements for GNSS-R and Radio Occultation payloads, define a digital processor implemented in a power-efficient manner, develop power resource efficient digital beamforming techniques and algorithms and demonstrate the function in a representative breadboard.