Cubesat deployable antenna using bistable composite tape-springs

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 11, Issue , 2012, Pages 285-288

  Costantine, Joseph ^a   Tawk, Youssef ^b   Christodoulou, Christos G ^c   Banik, Jeremy ^b   Lane, Steven ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MSC01 1070   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cube Sat; deployable antennas; space communications

Indexed keywords

BI-STABLE COMPOSITE; BISTABLES; CONDUCTIVE COMPOSITES; CUBE SAT; DEPLOYABLE ANTENNA; GLASS FIBER-REINFORCED EPOXY; SPACE COMMUNICATIONS;

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; GLASS FIBERS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 84859710183     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2012.2189544     Document Type: Article

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