Title :
Advanced concepts for European spacecraft antennas
Author_Institution :
ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Abstract :
The author reviews antenna technologies and concepts for spacecraft of the next decades and identifies directions for future work. This includes reflector antennas, antenna phased arrays and advanced antenna beam formers. Requirements foreseen are higher frequencies, larger sizes, lower sidelobes, higher power, reconfigurability, multifrequencies and low cost
Keywords :
satellite antennas; technological forecasting; European spacecraft antennas; advanced antenna beam formers; antenna phased arrays; higher frequencies; higher power; larger sizes; low cost; lower sidelobes; multifrequencies; reconfigurability; reflector antennas;
Conference_Titel :
Satellite Antenna Technology in the 21st Century, IEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location :
London
