Compact End-fire Antenna Designs for PicoSat Integration and Other Small Satellite Missions

Victoria Gomez-Guillamon Buendia; Symon K. Podilchak; Salvatore Liberto; Dimitris E. Anagnostou; George Goussetis; Constantin Constantinides; Tom Walkinshaw; Maarten van der Vorst

doi:10.23919/EuMC48046.2021.9337969

Compact End-fire Antenna Designs for PicoSat Integration and Other Small Satellite Missions

Victoria Gomez-Guillamon Buendia, Symon K. Podilchak, Salvatore Liberto, Dimitris E. Anagnostou, George Goussetis, Constantin Constantinides, Tom Walkinshaw, Maarten van der Vorst

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Abstract

Two planar Yagi-Uda antenna designs for integration on the solar modules of PicoSats are proposed. One antenna is designed to be implemented on top of the solar cell while the other configuration is based on the removal of one of the extra solar modules to ease design whilst using FR4 as a substrate underneath. Miniaturization techniques such as effective artificial dielectrics and meandered dipoles are employed to overcome space constraints imposed by the PicoSat footprint (5 cm by 5 cm) while maintaining good antenna performance. Full end-fire radiation is achieved at 2.4GHz with the first design and peak gain values are around 5dBi while the impedance bandwidth is 6%. Quasi-end-fire radiation is achieved at 8GHz for the second design when integrated directly on the solar cell glass with gain values around 1dBi. Both designs comply with minimum requirements for successful downlink connections. These antennas can be implemented on PicoSats for commercial missions such as Earth Observation (EO) or telemetry for instance, CubeSats, and other small satellite missions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2020 50th European Microwave Conference (EuMC)
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	463-466
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9782874870590
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.23919/EuMC48046.2021.9337969
Publication status	Published - 2 Feb 2021
Event	50th European Microwave Conference 2020 - Utrecht, Netherlands Duration: 12 Jan 2021 → 14 Jan 2021

Conference

Conference	50th European Microwave Conference 2020
Abbreviated title	EuMC 2020
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Utrecht
Period	12/01/21 → 14/01/21

Keywords

compact antennas
end-fire
picosat
Yagi-Uda

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Networks and Communications
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Instrumentation

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