Abstract: With the development of modern satellite communication, integration of the functions of the satellite payload has significantly raised requirements of the hardware costs. This paper proposes an improved FFT algorithm that uses self-adapting truncation at each level of the FFT process to achieve a lager dynamic range of the signal’s spectrum as compared to the conventional FFT implementation. The improved algorithm has been applied in an inter-satellite link of a satellite navigation system with good anti-jamming performance, large dynamic range, and low complexity.

Key words: fast Fourier transform (FFT), anti-jammer, low complexity