Design and prototype of a flight microstrip antennas for the pico satellite ERPSat-1

RAST 2009 - Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Recent Advances Space Technologies

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 750-755

  Hamrouni, C ^a   Neji, B ^a   Alimi, A M ^a   Schilling, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

ERPSAT 1; Microstrip antenna; Picosatellite; Transmission

Indexed keywords

DATA TRANSMISSION; ELEVATION ANGLE; ENGINEERING SCHOOLS; ERPSAT-1; FREE SPACE; GROUND ANTENNAS; GROUND STATIONS; INTELLIGENT MACHINE; NEW TECHNOLOGIES; PICO-SATELLITES; PICOSATELLITE; POLARIZATION LOSS; REMOTE SENSING SYSTEM; RESEARCH GROUPS; RESONANT FREQUENCIES; SMALL SATELLITES; SPACE COMMUNICATIONS; TUNISIA;

ANTENNA GROUNDS; IONOSPHERE; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

MICROWAVE ANTENNAS;

EID: 70350381778     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RAST.2009.5158292     Document Type: Conference Paper

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