Session
Poster Session 3
Location
Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, UT
Abstract
Earth observation and science missions require high data-rate downlinks, demanding antennas with higher gain and wider bandwidth than standard COTS solutions, like helixes, monopoles or patches.
Reflectarray antennas are ideal, as they can deploy from flat panels on the satellite and become electrically large.
To fill the gap in European high gain space-qualified COTS options, the European Space Agency (ESA) and TICRA have developed and qualified a compact and deployable, circularly polarized X band reflectarray antenna (8.025–8.4 GHz) designed to fit on the side of a 6U CubeSat.
Document Type
Event
Ultra-Compact Deployable Reflectarray Antenna for CubeSat Earth Observation or Science Missions
Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, UT
Earth observation and science missions require high data-rate downlinks, demanding antennas with higher gain and wider bandwidth than standard COTS solutions, like helixes, monopoles or patches.
Reflectarray antennas are ideal, as they can deploy from flat panels on the satellite and become electrically large.
To fill the gap in European high gain space-qualified COTS options, the European Space Agency (ESA) and TICRA have developed and qualified a compact and deployable, circularly polarized X band reflectarray antenna (8.025–8.4 GHz) designed to fit on the side of a 6U CubeSat.
