Design and Deployment of a Ground Station to Demodulate NOAA Meteorologic Images

The world of nanosatellites is expanding. Indeed, the market for nanosatellites opens the doors of space for reasonable development costs, in comparison with the deployment costs of telecommunication satellites for example. ENSEIRB-MATMECA is preparing its students for this very specific new market, particularly as part of the school's participation in the NANOSTAR project (http://nanostarproject.eu/). The NANOSTAR project is a Satcom Challenge from the Interreg Sudoe program. It aims to gather seven universities and two aerospace clusters from the southwest of Europe (France, Spain and Portugal) to give a boost to the aerospace industry via university students and compete with other continents in the race to launching nanosatellites. In this context, the goal of this paper is to present the project proposed to the ENSEIRB-MATMECA students which consists to design and build a ground station in order to decode meteorologic images from the weather satellite NOAA-19.