Printed Yagi-Uda antenna array on CubeSat

Liu, Sining; Raad, Raad; Tubbal, Faisel

doi:10.1109/icspcs.2017.8270483

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“…A comparison has been included in Table 4, where the advantages of our proposed antenna are highlighted when compared to other state-of-the-art compact designs. Most of these works are based on WLAN and similar applications, however existing Yagi-Uda antennas for CubeSats [26], [27] have also been included in Table 4 to highlight the novelty in our integration approach for small satellites (in that the existing solar cell array of the Unicorn-2 PicoSat spacecraft is exploited) without requiring independent deployable systems for just the antenna. It should also be noted that the proposed three-director design achieves a competitive size when compared with systems of only one or no directors [29]- [32], without sacrificing performance, bandwidth, or involving complex parasitic loading configurations such as parasitic interdigitated strips.…”

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“…Some other works have also investigated planar Yagi-Uda antennas for SmallSats. For instance, [26] reported a 6 dBi printed Yagi-Uda array for 2.45 GHz and was simulated on the chassis of a 3U CubeSat. This antenna design with no miniaturization, needed a substrate of 90 × 150 mm 2 which could be too large for any PicoSat with additional payloads.…”

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Compact and Planar End-Fire Antenna for PicoSat and CubeSat Platforms to Support Deployable Systems

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Podilchak

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et al. 2022

IEEE Open J. Antennas Propag.

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A miniaturized planar Yagi-Uda antenna for integration with PicoSats or other SmallSat missions is proposed. Miniaturization techniques, such as meandering and 1-D artificial dielectric concepts to reduce the guided wavelength, are employed to overcome space constraints imposed by the SmallSat footprint while still maintaining good performance for the FR-4 antenna. Simulations and measurements have been carried out on the Unicorn-2 PicoSat chassis from Alba Orbital and are in good agreement. Also, antenna dimensions have been reduced between 15% and 66% when compared to a more conventional planar Yagi-Uda antenna working at the same frequency. This compactness allows for simple integration with the deployable solar panel array of the Unicorn-2 PicoSat spacecraft. Full end-fire radiation is achieved and peak gain values are about 5 dBi for the antenna when fully integrated on the satellite chassis, offering an attractive solution for downlink connectivity. This compact antenna design can also be used within an array for beam steering or integrated within the solar cell modules of other PicoSats, CubeSats and SmallSats. Applications include Earth observation, remote sensing, as well as SmallSat to ground station communications. The planar Yagi-Uda antenna may also be useful wherever end-fire radiation is required from a compact antenna structure.

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Compact and Planar End-Fire Antenna for PicoSat and CubeSat Platforms to Support Deployable Systems

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Podilchak

Liberto

et al. 2022

IEEE Open J. Antennas Propag.

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“…Different techniques and approaches have been applied to different antenna types to enhance their performance for use on CubeSat. As shown in Table 8, these antenna designs include inflatable reflector [65], horn antenna [66], millimeter and sub-millimeter wave antennas [67][68][69], Yagi-Uda antennas [70,71] , meanderline antenna [72], and metasurface antennas [73,74].…”

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“…However, its main limitation is the large antenna size that results in a non-negligible effect on the limited area on CubeSat for payload and solar panel installation. Another Yagi-Uda antenna design is proposed in [71] for use on 3U CubeSat. The proposed antenna is simple and is printed on board to avert deployment mechanism.…”

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Antenna Designs for CubeSats: A Review

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Cube Satellites, aka CubeSats, are a class of nano satellites that have gained popularity recently, especially for those that consider CubeSats as an emerging alternative to conventional satellites for space programs. This is because they are cost-effective, and they can be built using commercial off-theshelf components. Moreover, CubeSats can communicate with each other in space and ground stations to carry out many functions such as remote sensing (e.g., land imaging, education), space research, wide area measurements and deep space communications. Consequently, communications between CubeSats and ground stations is critical. Any antenna design for a CubeSat needs to meet size and weight restrictions while yielding good antenna radiation performance. To date, a limited number of works have surveyed, compared and categorised the proposed antenna designs for CubeSats based on their operating frequency bands. To this end, this paper contributes to the literature by focusing on different antenna types with different operating frequency bands that are proposed for CubeSat applications. This paper reviews 48 antenna designs, which include 18 patch antennas, 5 slot antennas, 4 dipole and monopole antennas, 3 reflector antennas, 3 reflectarray antennas, 5 helical antennas, 2 metasurface antennas and 3 millimeter and sub-millimeter wave antennas. The current CubeSat antenna design challenges and design techniques to address these challenges are discussed. In addition, we classify these antennas according to their operating frequency bands, e.g., VHF, UHF, L, S, C, X, Ku, K/Ka, W and mm/sub-mm wave bands and provide an extensive qualitative comparison in terms of their size, -10 dB bandwidths, gains, reflection coefficients, and deployability. The suitability of different antenna types for different applications as well as the future trends for CubeSat antennas are also presented.

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Miniaturized 1D beam switching and 2D printed Yagi‐Uda antenna arrays

Parthasarathy

Tjahjadi

Abhari

2021

Int J RF Microw Comput Aided Eng

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This article presents a multi‐board arrangement of printed Yagi‐Uda antennas that can be configured into 1D and 2D arrays. First, a 1 × 4 collinear array is designed and fed with a metamaterial Butler matrix (BM) network to provide beam switching at four azimuthal directions. Slow‐wave concept is used in designing the hybrid, crossover and delay sections of BM to achieve a footprint reduction of 67%. The 1 × 4 collinear array with the feed network achieves 8.42–11.7 dBi gain and 21.7–25.7 degrees half power beam width (HPBW) in horizontal plane for the four switched beam patterns at 5.8 GHz in simulations. Second, measurement results of the fabricated 1 × 4 collinear array with its miniaturized feed network confirm a range of 22–27 degrees in HPBW in the horizontal plane. Finally, parasitic structures are designed to reduce antenna coupling and a 3‐shelf holder is proposed to stack the 1 × 2 printed Yagi antenna subarray boards in compact 2D planar array configurations. Simulations of the 2 × 4‐array demonstrate achieving 13.09 dBi peak gain at 5.8 GHz along with reduction of the HPBW by 24.7 degrees in horizontal plane in comparison with the 1 × 4‐array prototype.

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Printed Yagi-Uda antenna array on CubeSat

Cited by 8 publications

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Compact and Planar End-Fire Antenna for PicoSat and CubeSat Platforms to Support Deployable Systems

Compact and Planar End-Fire Antenna for PicoSat and CubeSat Platforms to Support Deployable Systems

Antenna Designs for CubeSats: A Review

Miniaturized 1D beam switching and 2D printed Yagi‐Uda antenna arrays

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