Table 6 Communication links of SNIPE

	Downlinks		Uplinks
Data type	Telemetry	Payload data	Command	Redundancy
Band	UHF	S-band	UHF	S-band
Frequency	434.45/436.0/436.95/437.8 MHz	2,240.84 MHz	434.45/436.0/436.95/437.8 MHz	2,097.5 MHz
Data rate	4.8 kbps (GMSK)	1 Mbps (QPSK)	4.8 kbps (GMSK)	1 Mbps (QPSK)
Required link margin	> 3 dB	> 3 dB	> 3 dB	> 3 dB
BER	< 1E-5	< 1E-5	< 1E-5	< 1E-5

SNIPE, small scale magnetospheric and Ionospheric plasma experiment.