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.
“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. ”
Explore the world of satellite constellations, from advantages and challenges to the cutting-edge technologies that are driving the future of this technology.
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.
Featured Ansys products and collections for designing your assets
Plan smarter missions with tools that simulate trajectories, optimize tracking, and connect design to real-time operations—all in one streamlined workflow.
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.
Our Solutions
Simplified Simulations
Preparation and simplification of complex CAD for EM simulations with Ansys Discovery (CAD agnostic) software
Implement Ansys HFSS hybrid solver (FEM and SBR+) and linked field solutions for installed antenna integration onto extensive platforms.
同址分析
針對已安裝天線進行同址分析,包含搭配 EMIT 的無線電
Optimized Configurations
Optimize antenna location on satellite configuration.
Key Benefits
Performance Predications
Predict overall performance and antenna plus satellite performance when deployed in various scenarios (e.g., low Earth Orbit (LEO)).
Reduced Costs
Reduce testing costs by generating high-fidelity models of prototypes on early iterations of the design.
Seamless Integrations
Prepare for digital mission engineering with seamless integration between Ansys HFSS and STK software, connecting component-to-system to mission support.
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.
Our Solutions
Accurate Antenna Design
Fast and accurate phased array antenna design using the Domain Decomposition Method solver.
Automated Antenna Beam Steering
Automated antenna beam steering and shaping using the Finite Array Beam Calculator toolkit.
Seemless Pattern Export
Seamless export of embedded element patterns for antenna arrays.
Efficient Analysis
Efficiently analyze point single and multiple beam patterns for an array installed on a satellite while in orbit and communicating to a target on Earth.
Key Benefits
Reduced Sidelobe Spill
Reduce sidelobe spill by controlling the radiation pattern and efficiently using RF power.
Target Communication
Communicate to various targets by splitting the main beam.
Reduced Interference
Reduce interference between multiple antenna modules by directing a null toward the interferer/aggressor.
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.
Our Solutions
Optimize Components
Optimize components such as waveguides, amplifiers, and antennas with HFSS multipactor to prevent electron buildup and minimize multipaction risk.
Operating Power Estimation
Estimate the operating power of components outgassing in a harsh environment, preventing ionization, with the HFSS RF discharge tool.
Key Benefits
Improved Reliability
Mitigating multipaction and RF discharge enhances satellite reliability, ensuring long-term, maintenance-free operation in space
Better Signal Quality
Preventing multipaction and RF discharge preserves signal integrity, ensuring more precise and stable communication.
降低故障風險
解決倍增效應與射頻放電問題,可降低系統損壞風險,保護關鍵系統並確保任務成功。
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.
Our Solutions
End-to-End Simulation
Complete end-to-end simulation from the component level to the whole mission support.
Complex CAD Preparation
Preparation of complex CAD geometry of the satellite.
Leverage HFSS-FEM
Leverage the industry gold-standard Ansys HFSS-FEM software for synthesizing high-fidelity antenna models.
Predict Installed Antenna Performance
Predict installed antenna performance on the satellite by implementing Ansys HFSS hybrid solutions (IE and SBR+) and linked field analysis.
Streamlined STK Integration
Streamlined connection between Ansys HFSS and STK solutions for mission analysis. Ansys STK software provides a unique solution for satellite mission planning, including orbit maneuvers and calculating harsh environmental effects.
Key Benefits
Reduced Costs
Reduce mission costs by accelerating design validation through simulations, avoiding expensive prototypes and physical testing.
Comprehensive Predictions
Predict the entire mission, including high-fidelity components and systems.
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.
Our Solutions
Meet the Challenge
Design to the most challenging criteria and create high-performance optical systems.
Real-Time Visualization
Design optomechanics with real-time visualization of impact on optical performance.
Automated Data Capture
Seamless, automated data capture and export in an FEA-readable format.
Direct Import of FEA Results
Direct, accurate import of FEA results from structural and thermal simulations.
Key Benefits
加速設計
提升光學和機械設計及結構和熱分析之間的交互作用,加速創新。
Early Issue Detection
Perform previously impractical or impossible design evaluations, catch critical issues early, and avoid costly redesign.
Faster Time to Market
Reduce STOP analysis time from weeks to days and get better products to market faster.
Reduced Prototype Cycles
Reduce the number of prototype cycles, which can result in significant savings.
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.
Our Solutions
Complete Digital Framework
Create a complete digital framework to estimate or demonstrate the effectiveness of the overall system performance.
Legacy sensor modeling has traditionally been proprietary, limiting the ability and flexibility to update designs and overall system performance characteristics. With STK software and EOIR, engineers gain access to:
Regularly updated COTS software
Stay up to date with regularly updated COTS software.
Model all primary capabilities of radar systems, antennas, propagation factors, target RCS, and receiver performance.
Radar System Integration
Visualize radar employment and operations against realistic targets for performance confirmation and customer advocacy.
Radar System Analysis
Conduct radar system analysis of alternatives vs. approved threat scenarios to assess measurements of effectiveness.
Key Benefits
Support Radar Design
Support radar system design, development, employment, sustainment, and modernization with design reference models (DRMs).
Scenario Modeling
Confirm design options and requirement satisfaction with digital representative models and virtual scenarios.
Digital Engineering
Discover product weakness through virtual testing and streamline mitigation options with digital engineering.
RCS 生成、視覺化與應用
產生雷達截面 (RCS) 測量資料,以檢視載具與裝備設計,在 3D 環境中視覺化 RCS 資料,進而分析特徵表現,並評估在不同雷達接收模式下的效能。
Our Solutions
RCS Data Generation
Generate 4 Pi Steradian RCS data on 3D models over a large range of frequencies, polarizations, bandwidths, and collection geometries.
RCS 視覺化
將載具周圍的 RCS 資料視覺化,從中掌握載具特徵的弱點。
ISAR Image Analysis
Create ISAR Images to understand vehicle surface scattering characteristics.
Key Benefits
增進信心
在實際操作情境中,對於載具面臨對方雷達系統的表現更具信心。
Mitigate Risks
Mitigate the risk of creating a poor vehicle design that increases the probability of detection and survivability.
Accelerated Development Processes
Speed up the development process by implementing virtual testing in an operationally relevant scenario.
Data and Image Visualization
Integrate radar and electro-optical images into the correct geometry, synchronize sensor data with the collection scenario, and ensure model alignment with the collected data.
Our Solutions
Joint Sensor Integration
Illustrate how to jointly integrate multiple sensors into a single target collection scenario.
Time Synchronization
Time-synchronize the physical collection scenario with the EO/IR/Radar images in the correct reference plane for cross-disciplinary simultaneous analysis.
Model Alignment
Align 3D models with sensor image planes to support sensor data analysis and model alignment.
主要優勢
Confidence in Analysis
Build confidence in analysis exploitation and assessments through model alignment.
Accelerated Training
Accelerate training for new image analysts through synchronized model and cross discipline data alignment.