Current Projects


ITU-Rpy: ITU-Rpy is a python implementation of the ITU-R P. Recommendations to compute atmospheric attenuation in slant and horizontal paths. The propagation loss on an Earth-space path and a horizontal-path, relative to the free-space loss, is the sum of different contributions, namely: attenuation by atmospheric gases; attenuation by rain, other precipitation and clouds; scintillation and multipath effects; attenuation by sand and dust storms. Each of these contributions has its own characteristics as a function of frequency, geographic location and elevation angle. ITU-Rpy allows for fast, vectorial computation of the different contributions to the atmospheric attenuation.

Past Projects


Tradespace Analyzer: The Tradespace Analyzer is a tool that allows you to easily define a tradespace (by defining the type of decisions and its options), simulate it using your own models and analyze the results using several interactive visualizations. Possible analyses include Automatic Feature Clustering, Sensitivity Analysis (over decisions and features), Favorite Aanlysis and Pairwise comparison among others.





Optical Ground Station Architecture Analysis: Free Space Optics (FSO) are envisioned as the disruptive technology that will revolutionize space communications in the next three decades. Some studies suggest using FSO in the space-to-ground link, in addition to satellite-to-satellite crosslinks. This study analizes the tradeoffs in the selection of the location of future optical ground stations, using real cloud coverage data to estimate the probability of having a succesfull connection among a satellite and the receiver ground station.







DSN Scheduler Visualization: The DSN Scheduler Visualization tool allows the user to interactively explore the contacts between one of the DSN's antennas and a mission spacecraft in the last 3 months. In addition to contact metadata, the user can analyze minute-by minute information such as power (Rx or Tx), datarate, frequency or pointing information.