A large deployable antenna technology for the NASA Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission is currently being developed by JPL in response to NRC Earth Science Tier 2 Decadal Survey recommendations. This technology is required to enable the SWOT mission due to the fact that no currently available antenna is capable of meeting SWOT's demanding Ka-Band remote sensing requirements. One of the key aspects of this antenna development is to minimize the effect of the on-orbit thermal distortion to the antenna RF performance. An analysis process which includes: 1) the on-orbit thermal analysis to obtain the temperature distribution; 2) structural deformation analysis to get the geometry of the antenna surface; and 3) the RF performance with the given deformed antenna surface has been developed to accommodate the development of this antenna technology. The detailed analysis process and some analysis results will be presented and discussed by this paper.
Thermal Deformation and RF Performance Analyses for the SWOT Large Deployable Ka-Band Reflectarray
AIAA Gossamer Spacecraft Forum ; 2010 ; Orlando, FL, United States
2010-04-12
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Thermal Deformation and RF Performance Analyses for the SWOT Large Deployable Ka-Band Reflectarray
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