Mechanically scanned, electronically zoomed, receive and transmit antenna for low Earth orbit spaceborne wideband applications in Ku band

Author

Croq, F. ; Dolmeta, F. ; Lejay, B. ; Vourch, E. ; Reynaud, M.

Author_Institution

Space Antenna Dept., Alcatel Space Industries, Toulouse, France

Volume

4

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

224

Abstract

Alcatel Space Industries has studied a complete space based telecom system for wideband applications (SKYBRIDGE). This paper presents the antenna that has been studied and developed for this application. A brief justification of the antenna architecture with respect to the requirements is given. The technological developments for both receive and transmit reconfigurable direct radiating array are presented, as well as the obtained results. A high performance, wideband, wide scanning angle, low sidelobes, low C/I, receive/transmit antenna has been successfully designed and developed for applications in a high data rate LEO space based system.

Keywords

antenna feeds; antenna radiation patterns; microwave antenna arrays; receiving antennas; satellite antennas; scanning antennas; transmitting antennas; 11.1 to 12.45 GHz; 12.95 to 14.5 GHz; Alcatel Space Industries; Ku band; SKYBRIDGE; antenna radiation patterns; direct radiating array; electronically zoomed antenna; high data rate; low Earth orbit; mechanically scanned antenna; receive/transmit antenna; scanning antenna; spaceborne antenna; wideband antenna; Aerospace industry; Antenna arrays; Broadband antennas; Frequency; Low earth orbit satellites; MMICs; Receiving antennas; Space technology; Transmitting antennas; Wideband;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2002. IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7330-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2002.1016965

Filename

1016965