UHF Deployable Helical Antennas for CubeSats

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 3752-3759

  Costantine, Joseph ^a,b   Tawk, Youssef ^b,c   Maqueda, Ignacio ^d,e   Sakovsky, Maria ^d   Olson, Gina ^f   Pellegrino, Sergio ^d   Christodoulou, Christos G ^g  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b COSMIAC ^*  (United States)

^c NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e Comet Ingenieriá ^*  (Spain)

^f Meggitt Polymers and Composites   (United States)

^g MSC01 1070   (United States)

Author keywords

Balun; conical log spiral antenna (CLSA); CubeSat; deployable antennas; helical antennas; helical pantograph; origami; quadrifilar helix antenna (QHA); space communications; Z folding

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; FREQUENCY BANDS; HELICAL ANTENNAS; PANTOGRAPHS;

BALUN; CUBESAT; DEPLOYABLE ANTENNA; LOG SPIRAL ANTENNAS; ORIGAMI; QUADRIFILAR HELIX ANTENNAS; SPACE COMMUNICATIONS; Z-FOLDING;

SPIRAL ANTENNAS;

EID: 84987660260     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2016.2583058     Document Type: Article

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