The iridium main mission antenna concept

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 416-424

  Schuss, J J ^a   Upton, J ^a   Myers, B ^b   Sikina, T ^a   Rohwer, A ^a   Makridakas, P ^b   Francois, R ^a   Wardle, L ^a   Smith, R ^b  

^a RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

^b MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Antenna arrays; Phased arrays

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SATELLITE GROUND STATIONS; SATELLITE LINKS;

BEAMFORMING ARCHITECTURE; IRIDIUM GLOBAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; L-BAND SATELLITE; PATCH RADIATORS;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS;

EID: 0032627813     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.768775     Document Type: Article

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