High efficiency and compact X band feed for Telemetry Applications

Author

Diez, Hubert

Author_Institution

Centre Nat. d´´Etudes Spatiales, Toulouse, France

fYear

2012

fDate

25-28 June 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper presents the design of a compact and high efficiency feed working in dual circular polarization, in X Band (8.0 GHz - 8.45 GHz). This feed was designed for working with a pointing mechanism typically for transmitting to a ground station, data coming from earth observation or science satellite missions. All the design steps are described, and main results are presented (including performances measured on an electrical model).

Keywords

antenna feeds; microwave antennas; polarisation; satellite antennas; telemetry; transmitting antennas; antenna feed; bandwidth 8 GHz to 8.45 GHz; dual circular polarization; ground station transmission; high efficiency compact X band feed; pointing mechanism; science satellite missions; telemetry applications; Antenna arrays; Antenna measurements; Feeds; Horn antennas; Optimization; Satellite antennas; Software; Antennas payload telemetry data subsystem; Particle Swarm Optimization; compact test range; multimodal analysis; multimodal horn; scrimp horn; septum polarizer;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics (ANTEM), 2012 15th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Toulouse

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0290-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ANTEM.2012.6262344

Filename

6262344