Large Aperture, Scanning, L-Band SAR

Moussessian, Alina; Del Castillo, Linda; Bach, Vinh; Grando, Maurio; Quijano, Ubaldo; Smith, Phil; Zawadzki, Mark

Large Aperture, Scanning, L-Band SAR

Moussessian, Alina; Del Castillo, Linda; Bach, Vinh; Grando, Maurio; Quijano, Ubaldo; Smith, Phil; Zawadzki, Mark

URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2014/42217

Date: 2011-06-11

Keywords: Membrane radar,; phased array; flexible array; flexible antenna

Publisher: Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2011.

Citation: NASA Earth Science Technology Conference, Pasadena, California June 21, 2011

Abstract:

We have developed the first L-band membrane-based active phased array. The antenna is a 16x16 element patch array with dimensions of 2.3mx2.6m. The array uses membrane-compatible Transmit/Receive (T/R) modules for electronic beam steering. We will discuss the antenna design, the fabrication of this large array, the T/R module development, the signal distribution approach and the measured results of the array

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