NASA NTRS · 20210010078
X/Ka-band one-meter deployable mesh reflector for Deep Space Network telecommunication
Abstract
A deployable one meter mesh reflector compatible with 12U-class CubeSat is introduced for telecommunication. It is compatible with NASA’s deep-space network (DSN) at X-band (i.e., uplink: 7.145-7.19 GHz; downlink: 8.4-8.45 GHz) and Ka-band frequencies (i.e., uplink: 34.2–34.7 GHz; downlink: 31.8–32.3 GHz). Three right-handed circularly polarized (RHCP) antennas, both transmit and receive, are introduced here: X-band only, Ka-band only, and X/Ka-band.
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Freebury, Gregg, Beidleman, Neal, Mitchell, Matthew, Sauder, Jonathan, Chahat, Nacer. 2019-03-31. X/Ka-band one-meter deployable mesh reflector for Deep Space Network telecommunication. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20210010078
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