A Bottom Fed Deployable Conical Log Spiral Antenna Design for CubeSat

Ernest, Anthony J.; Tawk, Y.; Costantine, J.; Christodoulou, C.G.

doi:10.1109/tap.2014.2367539

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“…Various antenna configurations are available (monopole, dipole, or turnstile) for linear or circular polarizations with an omnidirectional pattern and a gain of about 0dBi. For higher gain, other antennas have been investigated for UHF operation such as loop antennas [6], [7], helical antennas [8]- [12], and patch antennas [13]. For MarCO, to receive the EDL telemetry from Insight, an antenna gain of 5dBi (>0dBic at ±30degree off boresight) was needed [1].…”

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Advanced CubeSat Antennas for Deep Space and Earth Science Missions: A review

Chahat

Decrossas

González‐Ovejero

et al. 2019

IEEE Antennas Propag. Mag.

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Small satellites provide low cost access to space and they have historically been used for flight technology demonstrations and limited function space science activities. Novel antenna technologies have enabled high performance smallsat telecom, science in earth orbit, and the first Cubesat mission to Deep Space. Over the past 5 years, technologists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have designed, tested and successfully flown these innovative and enabling Smallsat antennas. This paper describes these innovations and their impact on smallsat performance for recent and future NASA missions.

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Advanced CubeSat Antennas for Deep Space and Earth Science Missions: A review

Chahat

Decrossas

González‐Ovejero

et al. 2019

IEEE Antennas Propag. Mag.

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“…Wire antennas are widely used on satellites. However, mechanical deployment of dipoles, monopoles, Yagi-Uda arrays and helical antennas is quite sophisticated and is liable to increase the chance of mission failure[ 7 ]. In [ 8 ], a monopole antenna has been presented for nanosatellite communication operating at 435–438 MHz.…”

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Design and compatibility analysis of a solar panel integrated UHF antenna for nanosatellite space mission

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A compact UHF antenna has been presented in this paper for nanosatellite space mission. A square ground plane with slotted rectangular radiating element have been used. Coaxial probe feeding is used to excite. The rectangular slot of the radiating patch is responsible for resonating at lower UHF bands. One of the square faces of the nanosatellite structure works as the ground plane for the slotted radiating element. The fabricated prototype of the proposed antenna has achieved an impedance bandwidth (S11< -10dB) of 7.0 MHz (398 MHz– 405 MHz) with small size of 97 mm× 90 mm radiating element. The overall ground plane size is 100 mm × 100 mm × 0.5 mm. The proposed antenna has achieved a gain of 1.18 dB with total efficiency of 62.5%. The proposed antenna addresses two design challenges of nanosatellite antenna, (a) assurance of the placement of solar panel beneath the radiating element; (b) providing about 50% open space for solar irradiance to pass onto the solar panel, enabling the solar panel to achieve up to 93.95% of power under of normal conditions.

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“…These limitations were overcome by using deployable solar panels and antennas in recent nanosatellite missions [ 9 ]. However, mechanical deployment is quite sophisticated and this might increase the chance of mission failure [ 10 ]. Several small satellite missions have failed as a result of antenna deployment complexity [ 11 , 12 ] and solar panel deployment complexity [ 13 ].…”

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A Solar Panel-Integrated Modified Planner Inverted F Antenna for Low Earth Orbit Remote Sensing Nanosatellite Communication System

Alam

Ullah

Cho

2018

Sensors

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One of the most efficient methods to observe the impact of geographical, environmental, and geological changes is remote sensing. Nowadays, nanosatellites are being used to observe climate change using remote sensing technology. Communication between a remote sensing nanosatellite and Earth significantly depends upon antenna systems. Body-mounted solar panels are the main source of satellite operating power unless deployable solar panels are used. Lower ultra-high frequency (UHF) nanosatellite antenna design is a crucial challenge due to the physical size constraint and the need for solar panel integration. Moreover, nanosatellite space missions are vulnerable because of antenna and solar panel deployment complexity. This paper proposes a solar panel-integrated modified planner inverted F antenna (PIFA) to mitigate these crucial limitations. The antenna consists of a slotted rectangular radiating patch with coaxial probe feeding and a rectangular ground plane. The proposed antenna has achieved a −10 dB impedance bandwidth of 6.0 MHz (447.5 MHz–453.5 MHz) with a small-sized (80 mm× 90 mm× 0.5 mm) radiating element. In addition, the antenna achieved a maximum realized gain of 0.6 dB and a total efficiency of 67.45% with the nanosatellite structure and a solar panel. The challenges addressed by the proposed antenna are to ensure solar panel placement between the radiating element and the ground plane, and provide approximately 55% open space to allow solar irradiance into the solar panel.

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A Bottom Fed Deployable Conical Log Spiral Antenna Design for CubeSat

Cited by 40 publications

References 9 publications

Advanced CubeSat Antennas for Deep Space and Earth Science Missions: A review

Advanced CubeSat Antennas for Deep Space and Earth Science Missions: A review

Design and compatibility analysis of a solar panel integrated UHF antenna for nanosatellite space mission

A Solar Panel-Integrated Modified Planner Inverted F Antenna for Low Earth Orbit Remote Sensing Nanosatellite Communication System

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