Aero-WAVE: a W-band preliminary test using HAP

Author

Jebril, A. ; Lucente, M. ; Rossi, T. ; Ruggieri, M. ; Zuliani, L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Rome Univ.

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0

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0-0 0

Abstract

Aero-WAVE is a scientific payload that operates in W-band. It will be embarked onboard a stratospheric platform or high altitude platform (HAP) in order to perform a first test of the channel behavior at an altitude of about 20 km. The stratospheric platform is a high altitude aircraft known as the M-55 Geophysica, a Russian aircraft well known in the atmospheric research environment and the European scientific community since 1996. The M-55 Geophysica will be equipped with the payload instrumentation to carry out the measurements. These measurements and the resulting data provided throughout the Aero-WAVE mission will give good indications of the channel behavior at different weather conditions and at different locations within the GEO-WAVE coverage

Keywords

aircraft communication; aircraft instrumentation; Aero-WAVE; GEO-WAVE coverage; M-55 Geophysica; W-band analysis & verification; atmospheric research environment; geostationary Earth orbit; high altitude aircraft; high altitude platform; payload instrumentation; scientific payload; Aerospace electronics; Aircraft; Atmospheric measurements; Electronic equipment testing; Extraterrestrial measurements; Frequency; Geophysical measurements; Payloads; Performance evaluation; Satellites;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace Conference, 2006 IEEE

Conference_Location

Big Sky, MT

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9545-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AERO.2006.1655988

Filename

1655988