Technical Program

FR-SP.2A: Antenna Innovations and Open Challenges for Small Satellites and CubeSats

Session Type: Special Session Oral
Time: Friday, July 12, 08:00 - 11:40
Location: Grand Ballroom D
Session Chairs: Joshua Kovitz, Georgia Tech Research Institute and Nacer Chahat, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
 
08:00 - 08:20
FR-SP.2A.1: A REVIEW OF JPL DEPLOYABLE CUBESAT ANTENNAS
         Nacer Chahat, Emmanuel Decrossas, Tom Cwik, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, California Institute of Technology, United States
 
08:20 - 08:40
FR-SP.2A.2: METAL-ONLY MODULATED METASURFACE ANTENNA FOR CUBESAT PLATFORMS
         David Gonzalez-Ovejero, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France; Adham Mahmoud, Xavier Morvan, Université de Rennes 1, France; Mauro Ettorre, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France; Ronan Sauleau, Université de Rennes 1, France; Stefano Maci, University of Siena, Italy; Goutam Chattopadhyay, Nacer Chahat, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, California Institute of Technology, United States
 
08:40 - 09:00
FR-SP.2A.3: X-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IN SMALLSATS: DEVELOPING A DEPLOYABLE PHASED ARRAY AT SMALLSAT TIMESCALES
         Wyman Williams, Kathy Bowland, James Dee, Joshua Kovitz, Georgia Tech Research Institute, United States
 
09:00 - 09:20
FR-SP.2A.4: HIGH-FREQUENCY CUBESAT PLATFORM SCATTERING USING HIGHER-ORDER METHOD OF MOMENTS
         Jakob Rosenkrantz de Lasson, Oscar Borries, Cecilia Cappellin, Tonny Rubæk, TICRA, Denmark
 
09:20 - 09:40
FR-SP.2A.5: DESIGN OF A QUASI-OPTICAL SI/GAAS W-BAND BEAM-FORMING METASURFACE ANTENNA
         Okan Yurduseven, Choonsup Lee, Nacer Chahat, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, California Institute of Technology, United States; David Gonzalez-Ovejero, Mauro Ettorre, Ronan Sauleau, IETR, University of Rennes 1, France; Goutam Chattopadhyay, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, California Institute of Technology, United States
 
09:40 - 10:00 Break
 
10:00 - 10:20
FR-SP.2A.6: DESIGN AND MEASUREMENTS OF A 1M KA-BAND MESH DEPLOYABLE REFLECTOR ANTENNA FOR CUBESATS
         Yahya Rahmat-Samii, Vignesh Manohar, University of California, Los Angeles, United States; Richard Hodges, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, California Institute of Technology, United States; Gregg Freebury, Tendeg LLC, United States
 
10:20 - 10:40
FR-SP.2A.7: MEASURING GPS TRANSMIT ANTENNA PATTERN USING ON-ORBIT RECEIVERS
         Tianlin Wang, Christopher Ruf, Bruce Block, University of Michigan, United States; Andrew O'Brien, Ohio State University, United States
 
10:40 - 11:00
FR-SP.2A.8: DEPLOYABLE CIRCULARLY POLARIZED UHF PRINTED LOOP ANTENNA FOR MARS CUBE ONE (MARCO) CUBESAT
         Emmanuel Decrossas, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, California Institute of Technology, United States; Phillip E. Walkemeyer, Canvas Technology, United States; B. Savannah Velasco, California State Polytechnic University - Pomona, United States; Nacer Chahat, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, California Institute of Technology, United States
 
11:00 - 11:20
FR-SP.2A.9: IN-ORBIT TEST STRATEGY AND RESULTS FOR GX MULTIBEAM ANTENNA
         Sara Mugnaini, Marc Benhamou, Inmarsat plc, United Kingdom
 
11:20 - 11:40
FR-SP.2A.10: X-BAND ARCHIMEDEAN SPIRAL ANTENNA ARRAY WITH SLOPED-WALL BACKING CAVITY
         Katelyn Isbell, Yang-Ki Hong, Woncheol Lee, Hoyun Won, Minyeong Choi, University of Alabama, United States