While the capabilities of CubeSats have greatly increased in the past years, large, deployable high frequency apertures remain a limitation. The goal of this work is to develop a large 1 meter antenna operating at 35.75 GHz for RADAR applications. A reflectarray design was selected, as the flat panels are compatible with the CubeSat form factor. A center-fed, Cassegrain configuration was selected for the feed, to minimize deployed height. The flat panel configuration and Cassegrain feed allowed the entire 1 meter antenna to be compatible with a 6U bus, leaving a little under 4U of volume for remaining instrument and spacecraft components. Several iterations of the design have been built and tested, with an RF test of a fully deployed assembly being completed most recently. Prior to constructing the flight model, another iteration will need to be built and tested. The goal is to have the antenna flight ready before 2020.


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    Titel :

    Deployment mechanisms for high packing efficiency One-MEter Reflectarray Antenna (OMERA)


    Beteiligte:
    Cwik, Tom (Autor:in) / Agnes, Greg (Autor:in) / Shi, Mengjan (Autor:in) / Dunphy, Sean (Autor:in) / Thiel, Ellen (Autor:in) / Chahat, Nacer (Autor:in) / Arya, Manan (Autor:in) / Sauder, Jonathan F. (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2019-01-07


    Medientyp :

    Preprint


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch



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