MESSENGER mission: First electronically steered antenna for deep space communications

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 1453-1461

  Bokulic, Robert S ^a   Fielhauer, Karl B ^a   Wallis, Robert E ^a   Cheng, Sheng ^a   Edwards, M Lee ^a   Stilwell, Robert K ^a   Penn, John E ^a   Bruzzi, Jonathan R ^a   Malouf, Perry M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLIED PHYSICAL LABORATORY (APL); DEEP SPACE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; EFFECTIVE ISOTROPIC RADIATED POWER (EIRP); SOLID STATE POWER AMPLIFIERS (SSPA);

AIRCRAFT; ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; MICROWAVES; ORBITS; PLANETS; POLARIZATION; POWER AMPLIFIERS; POWER CONVERTERS; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; SPACECRAFT; TELEMETERING; WAVEGUIDES;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 11244281046     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

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4. E. Nhan et al., "Recent Test Results of a Flight X-Band Solid-State Power Amplifier Utilizing GaAs MESFET, HFET, and pHEMT Technologies," 2002 GaAs Reliability Workshop Proceedings, pp. 37-44, Oct 20, 2003.