Satellite communications system uses various satellites to transmit radio signals between earth terminals. A typical operational link includes an active satellite and two or more earth terminals. Satellite communication is one of the significant factor from the space programs and has made a major contribution to the international communication. There are various types of information that can be...

A Microstrip Conformal Hexagonal Slot Patch Antenna fed by 50Ω microstrip line for various applications is presented in this paper. The strip loaded proposed antenna is fed through microstrip line to achieve proper impedance matching. Simulated results on High Frequency Structure Simulator software version 13 (HFSS 13) and CST10 are compared for FR4 – epoxiy substrate at different central angle...

Abslmct This paper presents the experimental investigation of a dual-operation antenna operating in the L-band region. The basis of the design is the basic rectangular patch. The patch is perturbed with embedded two L-section structures. The chosen frequencies are 1.575 GHz for Giobal Positioning System (GPS) satellite receiver and 1.8 GHz for Global System for Mobile (GSM). The antenna has bee...

The MSA Agent is the software developed to design rectangular and U slotted micro strip antenna. It is applied for the various applications such as satellite communications, UHF applications. Within the multimedia frequency range the developed software is tested and analyzed for various results. The software is developed using genetic algorithm. This provides extra flexibility and new capabilit...

This paper presents the design of a dual-band microstrip antenna with low wide-angle axial-ratio. The antenna is designed for global positioning satellite operations at 1227MHz (L2), 1575 MHz (L1) and 1176 MHz (L5, available after 2007). This antenna has another advantage of a much wider band in both VSWR and 3 dB axial-ratio compared with single-fed GPS antennas. Details of the design, simulat...

TerraSAR-X is a highly flexible X-band radar satellite. Its primary objective is the acquisition of high quality SAR images in a multitude of possible acquisition modes. The great amount of antenna patterns needed for image acquisition and correction requires an antenna model accurately describing all beams. To guarantee the required image quality, the model was verified in-orbit during the com...

The purpose of this study was to determine the accuracy of GPS use for a geosynchronous (GEO) satellite. Current missions at GEO altitude mainly use traditional ranging for orbit determination. With changing mission requirements and the increase in the number of GEO missions, utilizing GPS signals is becoming an increasingly attractive alternative for position and timing determination. A previo...

An accurate digital elevation model (DEM) is a critical data set for characterizing the natural landscape, monitoring natural hazards, and georeferencing satellite imagery. The ideal interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) configuration for DEM production is a single-pass two-antenna system. Repeat-pass single-antenna satellite InSAR imagery, however, also can be used to produce useful...