An ambitious resurfacing campaign was launched in late 2017 to correct for large reflector surface distortions present at the NASA LaRC Experiment Test Range (ETR) in support of performing Europa Clipper flight High Gain Antenna (HGA) measurements at X-and Ka-band frequencies. The effort was successful as the worst case peak-to-peak amplitude ripple was reduced from 4.0-dB to 1.5-dB across the 4.1-meter quiet zone.


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    Title :

    Resurfacing the NASA Langley Experimental Test Range Reflector



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    Publication date :

    2018-10-01


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    1454751 byte



    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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