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A Deployable High-Gain Antenna Bound for Mars: Developing a new folded-panel reflectarray for the first CubeSat mission to Mars.
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In this paper, the authors describe the development of a deployable high gain antenna (HGA) for the proposed Mars Cube One (MarCO) CubeSat mission to Mars.Abstract:
This article describes the development of a deployable high-gain antenna (HGA) for the proposed Mars Cube One (MarCO) CubeSat mission to Mars. The antenna is a new folded-panel reflectarray (FPR) designed to fit on a 6U (10 ? 20 ? 34 cm3) CubeSat bus and support 8.425-GHz Mars-to-Earth telecommunications. The FPR provides a gain of 29.2 dBic with right-hand circular polarization (RHCP). Small stowage volume is a key advantage of the FPR design, as it only consumes ~4% of the usable spacecraft payload volume with a mass of less than 1 kg.read more
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Novel deployable reflectarray antennas for CubeSat communications
TL;DR: In this article, two novel high gain deployable reflectarray antennas to support CubeSat telecommunications are described and compared with other high gain CubeSat antenna technologies, and measured performance results are presented.