AbstractOn October 25th, 2006, NASA’s two STEREO spacecraft were launched which are designed to increase our knowledge of the physics of the solar system. On board they carry a sophisticated radio experiment, called S/WAVES. The key technology, used by S/WAVES is the direction finding capability in addition to the use of two spacecraft which makes it possible to triangulate radio sources. Direction finding requires the reception properties of the antennas to be known very accurately. We applied several different methods to calibrate the S/WAVES antennas. In this paper the methods are described and compared and the results are presented and discussed with respect to advantages and disadvantages of the different methods.
Various methods of calibration of the STEREO/WAVES antennas
Advances in Space Research ; 43 , 3 ; 355-364
2008-07-18
10 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Various methods of calibration of the STEREO-WAVES antennas
Online Contents | 2009
|The Electric Antennas for the STEREO/WAVES Experiment
Springer Verlag | 2008
|Stereo Calibration in Vehicles
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2004
|Springer Verlag | 2008
|Stereo calibration in vehicles
IEEE | 2004
|