TY - GEN
T1 - Inflatable antenna for cubesat
T2 - AIAA SPACE Conference and Exposition, 2015
AU - Babuscia, Alessandra
AU - Choi, Thomas
AU - Cheung, Kar Ming
AU - Thangavelautham, Jekan
AU - Ravichandran, Mithun
AU - Chandra, Aman
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The inflatable antenna for CubeSat is a 1 meter antenna reflector designed with one side reflective Mylar, another side clear Mylar with a patch antenna at the focus. The development of this technology responds to the increasing need for more capable communication systems to allow CubeSats to operate autonomously in interplanetary missions. An initial version of the antenna for the S-Band was developed and tested in both anechoic chamber and vacuum chamber. Recent developments in transceivers and amplifiers for CubeSat at X-band motivated the extension from the S-Band to the X-Band. This paper describes the process of extending the design of the antenna to the X-Band focusing on patch antenna redesign, new manufacturing challenges and initial results of experimental tests.
AB - The inflatable antenna for CubeSat is a 1 meter antenna reflector designed with one side reflective Mylar, another side clear Mylar with a patch antenna at the focus. The development of this technology responds to the increasing need for more capable communication systems to allow CubeSats to operate autonomously in interplanetary missions. An initial version of the antenna for the S-Band was developed and tested in both anechoic chamber and vacuum chamber. Recent developments in transceivers and amplifiers for CubeSat at X-band motivated the extension from the S-Band to the X-Band. This paper describes the process of extending the design of the antenna to the X-Band focusing on patch antenna redesign, new manufacturing challenges and initial results of experimental tests.
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U2 - 10.2514/6.2015-4654
DO - 10.2514/6.2015-4654
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85085407302
SN - 9781624103346
T3 - AIAA SPACE 2015 Conference and Exposition
BT - AIAA SPACE 2015 Conference and Exposition
PB - American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA
Y2 - 31 August 2015 through 2 September 2015
ER -