Cube satellites, aka CubeSats, are a class of tiny satellites that have become popular for space programs. This is because they can be built relatively cheaply using commercial off-the-shelf components. Moreover, CubeSats can communicate with each other, and assemble into swarms to carry out different functions: e.g., wide area measurements and sensing. Swarms of CubeSats also have the effect of increasing the contact period with ground stations allowing for a longer communications window. These capabilities require CubeSats to be equipped with an efficient, high gain, small antenna to facilitate cross-link or inter-satellite communications. Henceforth, this paper presents a high gain coplanar waveguide (CPW)–fed slot antenna for CubeSats. A key feature is the use of a metasurface superstrate structure (MSS) to significantly improve gain and reduce back-lobe emissions. This also has the advantage of minimizing interference to components inside a CubeSat. We have comprehensively evaluated the antenna using the high-frequency simulator structure (HFSS) as well as a carrying out testing on a 3 U (10 × 10 × 30 cm3) CubeSat platform.We have studied the effect of MSS element sets and their position and the effect of a 3-U CubeSat body on the performance of the proposed antenna. The experimental results confirm that our antenna achieves a return loss of 21.5 dB and a fractional impedance bandwidth (BW) of 55.91% with S11 ≤ 10 dB and has a simulated and measured gains of 9.71 and 8.8 dBi respectively at the desired frequency of 2.45 GHz. In
A high gain S-band slot antenna with MSS for CubeSat / Tubbal, Faisel; Raad, Raad; Chin, Kwan-Wu; Matekovits, Ladislau; Butters, Brenden; Dassano, Gianluca. - In: ANNALES DES TÉLÉCOMMUNICATIONS. - ISSN 0003-4347. - ELETTRONICO. - 24:3(2019), pp. 223-237.
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Titolo: | A high gain S-band slot antenna with MSS for CubeSat |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2019 |
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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12243-018-0674-z |
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