Technical Program

TH-SP.2P: CubeSat and Small Satellite Antennas

Session Type: Special Session Oral
Time: Thursday, June 30, 13:20 - 16:40
Location: Grand Atlantic Salon II
Session Chairs: Reyhan Baktur, Utah State University and Yahya Rahmat-Samii, University of California Los Angeles
 
13:20 - 13:40
TH-SP.2P.1: EARTH SCIENCE RADAR CUBESAT DEPLOYABLE KA-BAND MESH REFLECTOR ANTENNA
         Nacer Chahat, Richard Hodges, Jonathan Sauder, Mark Thomson, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States; Yahya Rahmat-Samii, University of California, United States
 
13:40 - 14:00
TH-SP.2P.2: THE MARS CUBE ONE DEPLOYABLE HIGH GAIN ANTENNA
         Richard Hodges, Nacer Chahat, Daniel Hoppe, Joseph Vacchione, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States
 
14:00 - 14:20
TH-SP.2P.3: A SPLINE-PROFILED CONICAL HORN ANTENNA ASSEMBLY OPTIMIZED FOR DEPLOYABLE KA-BAND OFFSET REFLECTOR ANTENNAS IN CUBESATS
         Joshua Kovitz, Vignesh Manohar, Yahya Rahmat-Samii, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
 
14:20 - 14:40
TH-SP.2P.4: ANTENNA DEVELOPMENT FOR MICROWAVE SOUNDING CUBESATS
         William Blackwell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lincoln Laboratory, United States
 
14:40 - 15:00
TH-SP.2P.5: PRELAUNCH ANTENNA CALIBRATION OF CUBESAT MMW/SMMW RADIOMETERS WITH APPLICATION TO THE POLARCUBE 3U TEMPERATURE SOUNDING MISSION
         Lavanya Periasamy, Albin Gasiewski, University of Colorado Boulder, United States
 
15:00 - 15:20 Break
 
15:20 - 15:40
TH-SP.2P.6: DEPLOYABLE ANTENNA CONCEPTS FOR CUBESATS
         Joseph Costantine, American University of Beirut, The University of New Mexico, United States; Youssef Tawk, Notre Dame University Louaize, The University of New Mexico, United States; Christos Christodoulou, University of New Mexico, United States
 
15:40 - 16:00
TH-SP.2P.7: EXAMINATION OF TWO TYPES OF QUASI TRANSPARENT REFLECTARRAY ELEMENTS
         Taha Shahvirdi Dizaj Yekan, Reyhan Baktur, Charles Swenson, Utah State University, United States
 
16:00 - 16:20
TH-SP.2P.8: BROADBAND TRANSPARENT CIRCULARLY-POLARIZED MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS FOR CUBESATS
         Xinyu Liu, Jingshen Liu, David R. Jackson, Ji Chen, University of Houston, United States; Patrick Fink, Gregory Lin, NASA, United States
 
16:20 - 16:40
TH-SP.2P.9: CIRCULARLY POLARIZED MESHED PATCH ANTENNA FOR CUBESATS AND OTHER SMALL SATTELITES
         Brendan Montgomery, Queen's University, Canada; Symon Podilchak, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom; Yahia M. M. Antar, The Royal Military College of Canada, Canada
 

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