Journal
ELECTRONICS LETTERS
Volume 56, Issue 10, Pages 519-520Publisher
INST ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY-IET
DOI: 10.1049/el.2019.3559
Keywords
planar antenna arrays; satellite antennas; artificial satellites; microwave phase shifters; lens antennas; microstrip antenna arrays; spinning CubeSat; two-mode planar circular array; communication link; multimode excited planar circular array radio; mode-generating Rotman lens; microstrip patch antennas; spatially orthogonal modes; spinning unstabilised small satellite; frequency 5; 8 GHz
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- U.K. Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) [EP/P000673/1, EP/N020391/1]
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This Letter presents a novel technique for establishing a robust communication link to a spinning un-stabilised small satellite such as a CubeSat. The authors propose a system that involves a multimode excited planar circular array radio combined with a 360 degrees phase shifter that can electronically track the spinning CubeSat antenna and establish a communication link. The transmitter comprises a mode-generating Rotman lens and a circular array of microstrip patch antennas. The authors' proposed approach combines two spatially orthogonal modes of the circular array. They first present the system architecture, then they design and realise a proof-of-concept experimentally validated module operating in C-band at 5.8 GHz.
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