• DocumentCode
    2178602
  • 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)
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    26-30 March 2012
  • Firstpage
    1468
  • Lastpage
    1472
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • 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
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EuCAP.2012.6205993
  • Filename
    6205993
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2178602