Student antenna design for a nanosatellite

Author

Mathur, Rajat ; Haupt, Randy ; Swenson, Charles

Author_Institution

Electr. & Comput. Eng., Utah State Univ., Logan, UT, USA

Volume

7

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

7

Abstract

Utah State University is building a nanosatellite that will cooperate with satellites built by the University of Washington and Virginia Tech to perform important ionospheric investigations, as well as test various aspects of formation flying around the earth. These satellites must be able to communicate with each other as well as communicate with the ground stations. This paper describes the nanosatellite program at Utah State University (USUsat). In addition, the communication link budget and antenna designs for this satellite are described in detail. The ground station will have an array of helical antennas, while the antennas on the satellites will be circularly polarized microstrip patches

Keywords

helical antennas; ionospheric measuring apparatus; microstrip antenna arrays; satellite antennas; satellite links; student experiments; Ion-F satellites; antenna designs; array of helical antennas; circularly polarized microstrip patches; communication link budget; formation flying; ground station; ionospheric investigations; nanosatellite; Artificial satellites; Buildings; Earth; Helical antennas; Microstrip antenna arrays; Microstrip antennas; Performance evaluation; Satellite antennas; Satellite ground stations; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace Conference, 2001, IEEE Proceedings.

Conference_Location

Big Sky, MT

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6599-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AERO.2001.931454

Filename

931454