Conceptual design of a new huge deployable antenna structure for space application

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Zheng, Fei ^a   Chen, Mei ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Yang, Pingping ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ACCESSORIES; CABLES; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES;

DEPLOYABLE ANTENNA; FLEXIBLE CABLES; INFLATABLE MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE SURFACES; RIGID STRUCTURES; SURFACE DENSITIES;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 49349113636     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2008.4526312     Document Type: Conference Paper

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