Circularly Polarized Antenna Array with Sequential Rotation for Nanosatellites

Authors

  • Filipe Guterres Ferreira
  • Juner Menezes Vieira Universidade Federal do Pampa https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5194-148X
  • Diego Pereira Fumagalli Universidade Federal do Pampa
  • Lucas Santos Pereira Universidade Federal do Pampa
  • Marcos Vinício Thomas Heckler Universidade Federal do Pampa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14209/jcis.2018.15

Keywords:

antenna array, microstrip antenna, aperture-coupled Antenna

Abstract

This paper presents the design and characterization of an aperture-coupled microstrip antenna array to be installed onto a nanosatellite. The proposed antenna array has been optimized to operate at 2.26 GHz (S-Band), which is the operating frequency of the downlink channel of the Brazilian System for Meteorological Data Acquisition. The electromagnetic analyses are done by using the HFSS electromagnetic simulator. For the design validation, prototypes of single elements and antenna array were manufactured. The comparison between simulations and measurements indicates good performance of the designed antennas.

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Author Biographies

Juner Menezes Vieira, Universidade Federal do Pampa

Aluno de Mestrado Acadêmico no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Elétrica.

Lucas Santos Pereira, Universidade Federal do Pampa

Professor at UNIPAMPA

Marcos Vinício Thomas Heckler, Universidade Federal do Pampa

Professor at UNIPAMPA.

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Published

2018-06-13

How to Cite

Ferreira, F. G., Vieira, J. M., Fumagalli, D. P., Pereira, L. S., & Heckler, M. V. T. (2018). Circularly Polarized Antenna Array with Sequential Rotation for Nanosatellites. Journal of Communication and Information Systems, 33(1). https://doi.org/10.14209/jcis.2018.15

Issue

Vol. 33 No. 1 (2018)

Section

Regular Papers

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Received 2018-02-27
Accepted 2018-06-12
Published 2018-06-13

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