• DocumentCode
    1901678
  • Title

    Calibration and element failure correction of an intra-flight antenna at K-band

  • Author

    Greda, L.A. ; Shalaby, M. ; Dreher, A.

  • Author_Institution
    German Aerosp. Center (DLR), Inst. of Commun. & Navig., Wessling, Germany
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    11-17 July 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    In this paper we present a calibration concept and element failure correction of an intra-flight antenna operating at about 20 GHz. The intra-flight antenna is currently being developed by Thales Communications within the scope of the project MINERVAA that is supported by the European Union. The antenna should be used to carry safety data, pilot and companies data as well as entertainment data with a rate of 2.5 Mbit/s at a distance of 100 km en route.
  • Keywords
    antennas; calibration; K-band; MINERVAA; calibration; element failure correction; intra-flight antenna; mobile broadband satellite communications; steerable antennas; Antenna measurements; Arrays; Broadband antennas; Calibration; Optimization; Satellite antennas;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2010 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Toronto, ON
  • ISSN
    1522-3965
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4967-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/APS.2010.5562249
  • Filename
    5562249