An Intermediate Frequency Acquisition Scheme for S-band Single Access Link of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System

A nonzero intermediate frequency (IF) likelihood acquisition scheme designed for S-band Single Access (SSA) link of China's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite S y stem (CTDRSS) is introduced. The received signal is downconv erted to IF, and then direct sampled in IF using a 1-bit A/D. After the digital i zation, the sampled data is detected using a hybrid likelihood acquisition schem e. Using this structure, large noise figure of the analog mixer or active filter s, amplitude and phase imbalance between low-frequency in-phase and quandratur e- phase channel can be avoided. An easy designing algorithm of the acquisition sch eme is also derived. The performance and algorithm are verified by computer simu lation.