Training Platform — Equipment Demos & Simulators
Learn each piece of ground-segment hardware through a guided demo, live specs, and a focused simulator you can drive in real time.
Live Labs Gallery
From RF benches and crane installations to LEO gateway arrays and the A-Train — every station ships with a guided demo and an interactive simulator.
Live RF Lab — VNA, Waveguide & Spectrum
Vector network analyzer testing, waveguide alignment and spectrum analysis on Rohde & Schwarz instruments.
- •VNA S11/S21 calibration (SOLT)
- •WR-75 waveguide flange torque & alignment
- •Spectrum sweep, RBW/VBW theory
4.5m / 3.7m Antenna Installation — Crane Lift
Plan and execute a heavy-dish crane lift: load chart, sling angles, and final reflector mating to the pedestal.
- •Load chart & SWL verification
- •4-leg sling geometry & angles
- •Reflector mate-up & azimuth pre-set
VSAT Hub & OTT Headend Rack
HPE servers + Hughes HX/IRU modems + Riverbed WAN optimizers + ATEN KVM — your DVB-S2/OTT & VSAT hub spine.
- •HX modem provisioning & beam plan
- •Riverbed steelhead optimization rules
- •KVM-over-IP and out-of-band mgmt
Satellite Broadband & OTT Headend (SES-8 / GSAT-15)
Hughes NMS, HX modems and encoder servers for SES-8 and GSAT-15 reception, encoding and OTT delivery.
- •NMS inroute/outroute planning
- •DVB-S2 demod & MPEG-TS analysis
- •HLS/DASH packaging & DRM
Agilent Spectrum Analyzer — C-Band 4.198 GHz
Carrier analysis, CNR measurement and interference detection on C-Band downlink at 4.198 GHz.
- •Noise marker & CNR method
- •Adjacent-channel interference hunting
- •Occupied bandwidth (99%) measurement
Keysight Spectrum Analyzer — C-Band 3.86 GHz
Cross-vendor measurement workflow on Keysight FieldFox/PXA — ISRO/teleport-grade discipline.
- •Same measurement, different vendor
- •Trace math & averaging
- •Calibrated EIRP back-off check
LEO Gateway Array — Radome Site
Gateway antennas under radomes for OneWeb / Starlink / Kuiper-class LEO constellations.
- •High-elevation handover scheduling
- •Radome RF transparency & ice-loading
- •Inter-gateway handoff fundamentals
Antenna Control & Tracking Rack
Orbital Model 8200 ACU tracking AsiaSat 8 @ 120°E + RF-over-Fiber + EcoStar IRD + Comtech modem.
- •Step-track vs program-track
- •RF-over-Fiber link budget
- •ACU PID loop tuning
Field Satellite Signal Meter
Hands-on antenna peaking, polarization adjustment and link-budget verification with a portable meter.
- •Peak / null / peak technique
- •Cross-pol isolation > 30 dB
- •C/N readout vs MODCOD threshold
DTH Antenna Manufacturing & Packing
Bulk production of 60cm/75cm DTH antennas — mass-skilling plus hardware supply-chain training.
- •Press / paint / QC stations
- •Pack-out and reverse-logistics flow
- •Throughput & OEE basics
LEO Polar Constellation — Coverage & ISL
Global LEO coverage with inter-satellite links — OneWeb / Starlink / Kuiper architecture explained.
- •Walker-Star vs Walker-Delta
- •Inter-satellite laser links (ISL)
- •Latency vs altitude trade-off
NASA A-Train — Earth Observation Formation
Aura, PARASOL, CloudSat, CALIPSO, Aqua, GCOM-W1, OCO-2 — climate, agriculture and disaster monitoring.
- •Sun-synchronous orbit & MLT
- •Sensor stacking for column profiles
- •Re-visit time & swath planning
Hands-On VSAT Installation Training
Trainees assemble a 1.2m dish with instructor guidance — practical field work and certification path.
- •Site survey & obstruction analysis
- •Foundation, mast plumb & grounding
- •Pointing → cross-pol → commissioning