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Large Aperture, Scanning, L-Band SAR

Moussessian, Alina·DelCastillo, Linda·Bach, Vinh·Grando, Maurio·Quijano, Ubaldo·Smith, Phil·Zawadzki, Mark
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We have developed the first L-band membrane-based active phased array. The antenna is a 16x16 element patch array with dimensions of 2.3mx2.6m. The array uses membrane-compatible Transmit/Receive (T/R) modules for electronic beam steering. We will discuss the antenna design, the fabrication of this large array, the T/R module development, the signal distribution approach and the measured results of the array

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Moussessian, Alina, DelCastillo, Linda, Bach, Vinh, Grando, Maurio, Quijano, Ubaldo, Smith, Phil, Zawadzki, Mark. 2011-06-11. Large Aperture, Scanning, L-Band SAR. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20120013530

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