Cascade Designer - Spacecraft communication system design software
Elite company tools designed for tiny teams
Cascade Space was founded to build the ground station company of the future. But lack of large dishes is not the only thing broken about space communications, so are the design tools.
Industry standard spreadsheets are painful to build and maintain and error prone, but they can at least get you started. That said, they completely break down once you need to predict how your spacecraft will perform in real world dynamic environments, analyzing multiple variations of a system, or sharing and keeping the design updated across teams.
Every space company eventually starts to build internal tooling to parse 3D antenna patterns and scripts to evaluate link performance over given flight trajectories. This is usually unplanned work done by RF engineers that takes months to get even a rudimentary implementation up and running. This software is very bespoke and often brittle, and makes the tight timelines of early stage companies even tighter.
Across the industry this work gets duplicated over, and over, and over.
Enter Cascade Designer. The pipeline is already built. Start by designing your system in a graphical interface, get your link margin with a single button click.
Next, analyze entire trajectories with a single API call.
Designs can be shared with anyone on your team through our interface
We built this out because the customers of the best ground network need the best design tools, but we didn’t just build this for our ground station customers. Anyone designing a spacecraft for any orbit using any ground station can use it.
Visit our website to learn more and book your demo: https://cascade.space/designer/