Compact and Lightweight Reflectarray Antenna for SmallSats

This paper describes the design of a reflectarray antenna to be mounted on a small satellite that is part of a mega-constellation. The antenna generates an isoflux pattern that illuminates a radius of 400 km above the Earth’s surface at 1200 km of altitude. Applying two optimizations processes, based on the generalized intersection approach, a constant flux power radiation pattern is obtained between 16 and 18 GHz with an average gain of 12.35 dBi

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IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and North American Radio Science Meeting (2020. Montreal)

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http://hdl.handle.net/10651/55746

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This work was supported in part by the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades under project TEC2017-86619-R(ARTEINE); by the Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad under project TEC2016-75103-C2-1-R (MYRADA); by Gobierno del Principado de Asturias/FEDER under Project GRUPIN-IDI/2018/000191; and by Ministerio de Educación y Formación Profesional under grant FPU18/02575