A 20 kW X band High Power Amplifier for ESA Deep Space Ground Stations

Author

Dainelli, V. ; Serrano, Felipe ; Tomasi, L. ; Tuninetti, C. ; Marti, Sandra ; Alessi, G. ; Madde, R.

Author_Institution

RHEINMETALL ITALIA SPA, Rome, Italy

fYear

2009

fDate

28-30 April 2009

Firstpage

313

Lastpage

314

Abstract

The European Space Agency (ESA) is developing a network of 35 m antennas for Telemetry, Tracking and Command (TT&C) operations of primarily Deep Space spacecraft. A 20 kW water cooled X-band Klystron-based High Power Amplifier (HPA) working in the bandwidth 7145-7235 MHz , complete with power supply, internal protection, cooling system, local and remote monitor and control has been designed and developed by Rheinmetall Italia SpA, Roma (hereafter referred as RhI) in the contest of the ESOC contract 18570/04/D/SW . The complete HPA or parts of it will be installed in the Antenna Equipment Room (AER) of ESA Deep Space Ground Stations (DSGS). This paper describes the needs satisfied by the unit, the main technical performances and the main test results.

Keywords

avionics; cooling; microwave power amplifiers; ESA deep space ground stations; X band high power amplifier; cooling system; deep space spacecraft; frequency 7145 MHz to 7235 MHz; internal protection; power 20 kW; Bandwidth; Cooling; High power amplifiers; Power supplies; Power system protection; Remote monitoring; Satellite ground stations; Space stations; Space vehicles; Telemetry; cooling system; deep space ground station; high power amplifier; klystron power amplifier; monitor and control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vacuum Electronics Conference, 2009. IVEC '09. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Rome

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3500-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3501-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IVELEC.2009.5193405

Filename

5193405