Title :
CubeSat deployable Ka-band reflector antenna for Deep Space missions
Author :
Nacer Chahat;Jonathan Sauder;Mark Thomson;Richard Hodges;Yahya Rahmat-Samii
Author_Institution :
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Inst. Technology, Pasadena, 91109, USA
fDate :
7/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
While CubeSats have thus far been used exclusively in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), NASA is now investigating the possibility to deploy CubeSats beyond LEO to carry out scientific experiments in Deep Space. Such CubeSats require a high-gain antenna that fits in a constrained and limited volume. This paper introduces a 42.8 dBi gain deployable Ka-band antenna folding in a 1.5U stowage volume suitable for 3U and 6U class CubeSats.
Keywords :
"Reflector antennas","Ribs","Dipole antennas","Gain","Low earth orbit satellites","Space vehicles"
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation & USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, 2015 IEEE International Symposium on
DOI :
10.1109/APS.2015.7305481
