This special issue of the Wiley International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking hosts a selection of papers related to S-band mobile satellite R&D activities recently completed in the frame of the European Space Agency ARTES programs. The S-band allocation to hybrid satellite and terrestrial services in Europe 2009 and in other parts of the world has attracted operator, industr...

This paper presents a novel design of a microstrip patch antenna with compact nature and the study of various antenna parameters to suit the applications such as WiMax operating in the frequency range of 3.3 – 3.5 GHz and in other applications like fixed satellite services, maritime mobile services etc. covering 2 4 GHz of S-band frequency spectra. It is experimental observed that by placing st...

This paper proposed a microstrip antenna array with DGS (Defective Ground Structure). The structure in this work is 2*1 microstrip patch array antenna using substrate with h= 0.762 mm and εr = 3.2. Two triangular-shaped patches are located on opposite side of PCB and spaced 14mm apart by a small ground portion. The proposed DGS of I-shape is placed in the ground plane. It does provide a method ...

Adaptive antenna arrays have been proposed to mitigate strong interference and multipath in Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) receivers. However, the high cost of an entire front-end and limited signal processing resources make large (or oversampled) antenna array a luxury for GNSS receivers. Therefore, a low cost adaptive array processing strategy by subarray selection is proposed in ...

In spaceborne dual-antenna (i.e., single-pass mode) interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) system, the alignment of the master and slave antenna beam is crucial. In order to achieve the best interferometric performance, antenna beams should be coincided with each other between the master and slave. The beam alignment of the first spaceborne dual-antenna InSAR system, the Shuttle Radar...

Recently the requirement of low-profile antennas for wireless communications has greatly increased the demand of microstrip antennas because of their low-profile and light weight characteristics. In this paper a miniaturized, multiband dualstacked probe fed microstrip antenna is presented. There exists S-shaped coupling structure between the patches and a wide ground slot to improve antenna cha...

The application of Ku-band VSAT Systems to single layer hexagonal micro strip patch antenna is thoroughly simulated in this paper. The radiating elements in this antenna are composed of two triangular and one rectangular slots from the conventional micro strip patch antenna. These slots are engraved in the rectangular and triangular patch, joined together in two structures, and by single probe ...

A novel planar ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna with triple-notched bands using triple-mode stub loaded resonator (SLR) is presented in this paper. The basic UWB antenna consists of a circularshaped radiating element, a 50Ω microstrip feed line, and a partially truncated ground plane. Then, the resonance properties of the SLR are studied. Results reveal that the multiple-mode property of the SLR ca...

We propose square shape patch antenna in this research work. Focus of the work is to obtain large bandwidth with compact ground plane for wireless applications. The proposed antenna is designed using dielectric material of FR4 having height of 1.6 mm and having r of 4.4. We simulated the proposed antenna in CST Microwave Studio. Simulation results show that the proposed antenna achieved bandwid...