CubeSats are nanosatellites of standardized dimensions normally built by students that can be operated from a low-cost
ground stations installed at the academic institutes. They offer an opportunity to engineering students in designing, developing,
testing, and operating a real spacecraft system and its ground segment. The ground station is capable of receiving data from
CubeSat and process them to analyse and evaluate system performance. It can also send command to onboard system to control
system orientation, power etc. In this student project a low-cost ground system is realised by using UHF data link. All hardware
components are from the commercially of the shelf sources. A unique communication protocol and software is developed to
establish data exchange between ground station and CubeSat. A provision is made for data representation through python tool
box. A proto-model of both ground and onboard system is realised and experimented.
