Arise: A space VLBI mission using an inflatable antenna structure

1995 Space Programs and Technologies Conference

Volumn , Issue , 1995, Pages 1-8

  Ulvestad, James S ^a   Linfleld, Roger P ^a   Smith, Joel G ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); EFFICIENCY; INTERFEROMETRY; ORBITS; RADIO ASTRONOMY; RADIO TELESCOPES;

ADVANCED RADIO; APERTURE EFFICIENCY; CRITICAL COMPONENT; DEPLOYABLE TELESCOPES; FLIGHT EXPERIMENTS; INFLATABLE ANTENNA; LARGE ANTENNAS; VERY LONG BASELINE INTERFEROMETRY;

MICROWAVE ANTENNAS;

EID: 84959210933     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.1995-3794     Document Type: Conference Paper

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