Ka-band groundstation antenna aspects for deep space telecommunication and radar

Author

van ´t Klooster, K. ; Petelin, M. ; Thumm, Manfred ; Aloisio, M.

Author_Institution

ESA Estec, Noordwijk, Netherlands

fYear

2013

fDate

8-12 April 2013

Firstpage

242

Lastpage

246

Abstract

The paper discusses considerations for a large 35 m ground-station antenna operating in Ka-band with a powerful amplification stage. It could give additional functionality for radar applications (investigations into imaging by inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) of objects in space or Near Earth Objects (NEO)) and for Deep Space Telecommunication. Detection of space debris more near to Earth would obviously benefit from high power sources in Ka-band. However, the near-Earth target scenario is better handled with another type of antenna (phased array, mono/bi-static and other parameter scenarios).

Keywords

antenna feeds; object detection; phased array radar; radar antennas; radar imaging; satellite antennas; space communication links; synthetic aperture radar; waveguide antenna arrays; waveguides; ISAR; Ka-band groundstation antenna aspects; amplification stage; beam-waveguide feeding configuration; deep space telecommunication; distance 35 m; inverse synthetic aperture radar; near Earth objects; phased array; radar applications; space debris detection; Communications technology; Europe; Radar antennas; Radar imaging; Beam-waveguide; Deep Space Telecommunication; Gyrotron; Near Earth Object; Radar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2013 7th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Gothenburg

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2187-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-88-907018-1-8

Type

conf

Filename

6546255