Title :
Design and characterization of the Q-band AlphaSat receiving station in Rome
Author :
Marzano, Frank S. ; Salemme, Pasquale ; Restuccia, Elio ; Consalvi, Fernando
Author_Institution :
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell´´Informazione, Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni, Sapienza Università di Roma, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Roma (Italy)
Abstract :
A Q-band (40 GHz) receiving station, located in Rome (Italy), is in development for AlphaSat satellite Technology Demonstrator Payload 5 “Aldo”. Components of an unused receiving station, dedicated to previous propagation experiments, have been used with a great economic advantage. Mechanical tracking has been avoided because used antenna reduces received power level variations for satellite apparent movement. Numerical analysis has been compared with test bench results.
Keywords :
Antenna measurements; Aperture antennas; Gain; Noise figure; Receiving antennas; Satellites;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP), 2012 6th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Prague, Czech Republic
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0918-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0919-7
DOI :
10.1109/EuCAP.2012.6205993
