Author :
Chmielewski, Artur B. ; Noca, Muriel ; Ulvestad, James
Author_Institution :
Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA
Abstract :
Supermassive black holes are among the most spectacular objects in the Universe, and are laboratories for physics in extreme conditions. Understanding the physics of massive black holes and related phenomena is a primary goal of the ARISE mission. The scientific goals of the mission are described in detail on the ARISE web site http://arise.ipl.nasa.gov and in the ARISE Science Goals document. The following paper, as the title suggests, is not intended to be a comprehensive description of ARISE, but deals only with one aspect of the ARISE mission-the inflatable antenna which is the key element of the ARISE spacecraft. This spacecraft,due to the extensive reliance on inflatables, may be considered as the first generation Gossamer spacecraft
Keywords :
millimetre wave antennas; radiotelescopes; reflector antennas; satellite antennas; space vehicles; thermal analysis; 8 to 84 GHz; ARISE antenna; ARISE mission; ARISE spacecraft; EHF; SHF; astronomical telescope; first generation Gossamer spacecraft; inflatable antenna; radiotelescope; Aperture antennas; Calibration; Frequency; Horn antennas; Laboratories; Polarization; Propulsion; Receiving antennas; Reflector antennas; Space vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
Aerospace Conference Proceedings, 2000 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Big Sky, MT
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5846-5
DOI :
10.1109/AERO.2000.879311
