SATSOFT streamlines communication satellite coverage planning and preliminary antenna layout. Engineers can import and visualize antenna patterns, manage data in a world map, and model beams easily. The Payload Antenna Planner add-on adds advanced analysis for array-fed, shaped reflectors, and phased arrays, serving satellite mission planners and antenna engineers.
Quickly select countries or draw polygons for use as coverage area definition.
Synthesize contoured and spotbeams with or without pointing error from reflector or array antennas.
Plot pattern contours and create performance tables of directivity, EIRP, G/T, and more.
Using SATSOFT's Payload Antenna Planner add-on, engineers optimize a shaped reflector antenna to maximize signal coverage over North America while suppressing sidelobes over South America by more than 30 dB, minimizing interference between adjacent service regions.