Easy-to-deploy LC-loaded dipole and monopole antennas for cubesat

Authors

Korbinian Schraml, Aachen University of TechnologyFollow
Adam Narbudowicz, Technological University DublinFollow
Suramate Chalermwisutkul, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology North Bangkok
Dirk Heberling, Aachen University of Technology
Max Ammann, Technological University DublinFollow

Document Type

Conference Paper

Rights

Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence

Disciplines

2.2 ELECTRICAL, ELECTRONIC, INFORMATION ENGINEERING

Abstract

This paper proposes a new approach to reduce weight and complexity of VHF/UHF cubesat antennas by utilizing a dual band antenna, rather than standard two-antenna system routinely implemented in cubesats. Three systems are compared: A standard system with separate transmit/receive dipoles, a dual-band dipole for both transmit and receive and a dual-band monopole, which uses the body of 1U cubesat (10 × 10 × 10cm) as a “groundplane”. Additionally it is demonstrated that with appropriate feed the dipole might be used in monopole configuration in case of deployment system malfunction.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.23919/EuCAP.2017.7928135

Recommended Citation

K. Schraml, A. Narbudowicz, S. Chalermwisutkul, D. Heberling and M. J. Ammann, "Easy-to-deploy LC-loaded dipole and monopole antennas for cubesat," 2017 11th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP), 2017, pp. 2303-2306, doi: 10.23919/EuCAP.2017.7928135.

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