Advance of WISDOM GPR antenna for ExoMars 2018 mission

Author

Benedix, Wolf-Stefan ; Plettemeier, Dirk ; Zanoni, Andre ; Preller, Fabian ; Ciarletti, V.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Inf. Technol., Dresden Univ. of Technol., Dresden, Germany

fYear

2013

fDate

7-9 Nov. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

The Experiment “Water Ice and Subsurface Deposit Observations on Mars” (WISDOM) is a Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) selected to be part of the Pasteur payload on board the rover of European Space Agency´s (ESA) ExoMars 2018 mission. The GPR antenna system described in this paper is the consequent progression of former developments [1, 2] incorporating changed requirements and further optimizations. Main constraints are the mass, the temperature range as well as the ultra-wide band demand. The antenna requirements which are to fulfill for this very specific GPR application are described here. Furthermore, it is given an overview about the lightweight design and its realization. Simulated and measured antenna performance is compared in this paper.

Keywords

Mars; ground penetrating radar; radar antennas; space research; European Space Agency; ExoMars 2018 mission; Pasteur payload; WISDOM GPR antenna; ground penetrating radar; water ice and subsurface deposit observations on Mars; Antenna radiation patterns; Ground penetrating radar; Mars; Radar antennas; Resonant frequency; Thermal analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE), 2013 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WiSEE.2013.6737553

Filename

6737553