Design of Ka-Band Phased Array Antenna with Calibration Function

In this paper,we have proposed a novel structure of Ka-band based phased array antenna with calibration function.In the design of Kaband antenna,the active phased array system is adopted and the antenna would work in the dual polarization separation mode.We have given out the schematic diagram for the proposed Ka-band antenna,where the Kaband antenna is in the form of waveguide slot array antenna,with 96 units in azimuth and 1 unit in distance.Each group of units is driven by a singlechannel Transmitter/Receiver(T/R)component,and the whole array contains 192 T/R components in total.The size of the T/R component is 55mm(length)×50mm(width)×5.8mm(height),3 Sub-micro Sub-Miniature Push-on(SSMP)blind sockets and a 21-core low-frequency socket are designed on the two sides of the T/R component.In order to meet the technical specifications of phased array antenna,the Ka-band transceiver component is designed based on Low Temperatrue Co-fired Ceramic(LTCC)technology to achieve miniaturization and lightweight.In our approach,the feed network includes two parts:transceiver network and calibration network.The transceiver network consists of 241:8 time-delay power dividers,12 two-way power dividers and 2 six-way time-delay power dividers.The power supply required by theKaband antenna unit is provided to each active component by the power module after Ka band wavelet control distribution.Simulation and measurement results are given in the form of standing wave and scanning capability.

A novel static shape-adjustment technique for planar phased-array satellite antennas

Planar phased-array satellite antennas deform when subjected to external disturbances such as thermal gradients or slewing maneuvers.Such distortion can degrade the coherence of the antenna and must therefore be eliminated to maintain performance.To support planar phased-array satellite antennas,a truss with diagonal cables is often applied,generally pretensioned to improve the stiffness of the antenna and maintain the integrity of the structure.A new technique is proposed herein,using the diagonal cables as the actuators for static shape adjustment of the planar phased-array satellite antenna.In this technique,the diagonal cables are not pretensioned;instead,they are slack when the deformation of the antenna is small.When using this technique,there is no need to add redundant control devices,improving the reliability and reducing the mass of the antenna.The finite element method is used to establish a structural model for the satellite antenna,then a method is introduced to select proper diagonal cables and determine the corresponding forces.Numerical simulations of a simplified two-bay satellite antenna are first carried out to validate the proposed technique.Then,a simplified 18-bay antenna is also studied,because spaceborne satellite antennas have inevitably tended to be large in recent years.The numerical simulation results show that the proposed technique can be effectively used to adjust the static shape of planar phased-array satellite antennas,achieving high precision.

A modeling and simulation of control system of satellite tracking platform antenna

Based on the platform of mobile carrier satellite tracking has a wide range of applications. The paper adopts the advanced method of to step response identify, using the data obtained by the experiment model of high-speed acquisition, using the method of the least squares, finally the antenna control system model function was identified. Make use of integral separation algorithm, simu- link simulation and experiment analysis to set the control parameters of it. Stimulate the signal antenna control system under inter- fering. The experiment of the simulation experiment showed that the antenna control system model is stable with little error.

Compact and broadband circularly polarized ring antenna with wide beam-width for multiple global navigation satellite systems

A compact and broadband circularly polarized （CP） annular ring antenna with wide beam-width is proposed for multiple global navigation satellite systems （GNSS） in the L1 band. The annular ring is excited by two modified L-probes with quadrature phase difference. It has a 36.3% 10-dB return loss bandwidth and a 13% 3-dB axial ratio bandwidth, because of the orthogonal L-probes with 90° phase difference. The measured peak gain of the antenna is 3.9 dBic. It can detect the satellites at lower elevation as its half power beam-width （HPBW） is 113° in both the x-z and y-z planes, achieving a cross-polarization level of larger than 25 dB. Noticeably, the antenna achieves 89% size reduction compared with the conventional half wavelength patch antennas. It can be used in hand-held navigation devices of multiple GNSS such as COMPASS, Galileo, GPS and GLONASS.

Error Analysis of Orbit Determination for the Geostationary Satellite with Single Station Antenna Tracking Data

In the study, position and velocity values of a geostationary satellite are found. When performing this, a MATLAB algorithm is used for Runge-Kutta Fehlberg orbit integration method to solve spacecraft’s position and velocity. Integrated method is the solution for the systems which mainly work with a single station. Method provides calculation of azimuth, elevation and range data by using the position simulation results found by RKF. Errors of orbit determination are analysed. Variances of orbit parameters are chosen as the accuracy criteria. Analysis results are the indicator of the method’s

An L-strip fed stacked patch antenna for maritime satellite communications

A practical antenna has been designed and developed for INMARSAT mobile satellite communications. The design uses low cost materials such as foam and copper foil to create a stacked microstrip antenna array. Several techniques were adopted to enhance the impedance bandwidth and axial ratio bandwidth. The final design parameters were optimized by EM simulation. Finally, the L-strip fed six-element stacked microstrip antenna array was constructed and tested. Simulated and measured results show that in the whole INMARSAT work band, the VSWR of the antenna is less than 1.6, its antenna gain is higher than 15dB and wide-angle axial ratio (AR) 3dB is more than 21o. The antenna has been successfully used with a HNS 9201 terminal.

Thermal deformation analysis of the composite material satellite antenna

Controlling the thermal deformation is a crucial index for the design of the satellite antenna. To calculate and measure the satellite antenna’s thermal deformation is also an important step for the design of satellite antenna. Based on the foundation of equivalent assumption, the thermal deformation of the parabolic satellite antenna was analyzed by the finite element method for different design project. The best design project that had the minimum of the thermal deformation could be obtained through changing the lay-angle, lay-layers and lay-thickness of each layer. Results show the asymmetry structure has the minimum of thermal deformation. This paper may provide useful information for the further investigation on the coupling of thermal-stress structure.

Effects on dynamic characters of antenna structures in satellite induced by disordered parameters

A simplified dynamic model of a dish antenna in satellite is established in this article.The modelcan be easily used to analyze the dynamic behaviour of the antenna structure.In terms of the simplifiedmodel,effects on dynamic characters due to the disorder of parameters are investigated in details.Thefrequencies calculated by the simplified model accord with those computed by ANSYS.Based on the modeshapes of disordered and perfect structure,the influence law and varying trend of dynamic characters ofantenna structures in satellites produced by stiffness and mass of antenna ribs,stiffness of antenna mem-branes and angles between adjacent ribs,are obtained.The analyses in the paper indicate that the effectsby disordered parameters can not be ignored in the dynamic analysis of such structures.

A Satellite Communication System Transmission Scheme Based on Probabilistic Shaping

In this paper, A transmission scheme based on probabilistic shaping applied to satellite communication systems is proposed. 16QAM is taken as an example to establish a 1GBaud ROF experimental system working in Ka-band. The experiment results show that the PS-16QAM signal has better performance in terms of bit error rate than the uniform 16QAM, and its performance is close to the uniform 8QAM scheme.

Coordinated Resource Allocation for Satellite-Terrestrial Coexistence Based on Radio Maps

Coexistence of satellite and terrestrial wireless communication systems in the same frequency band is quite promising for addressing the challenge of spectrum scarcity. To cope with the inevitable inter-system interference, radio resource allocation at both sides should be carefully re-optimized. In this paper, we focus on a scenario where a satellite communication system and a terrestrial distributed antenna system(DAS) coexist via spectrum sharing. We particularly utilize the radio map(RM) to reduce the system overhead for channel acquisition. Based on the large-scale channel state information at the transmitter(CSIT), which is derived from the RM, we propose an optimized power allocation scheme to improve the achievable sum rate of the terrestrial system. For the satellite side, an opportunistic user scheduling scheme is presented, to reduce the harmful leakage interference to the terrestrial mobile users. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed RM-based coordination scheme can significantly promote the performance of satellite terrestrial coexistence, although the small-scale channel fading has been ignored in the formulated optimization.

A Compact Ultra-Wideband Circularly Polarized Antenna Array for Vehicular Communications

In this paper,a new compact ultrawideband(UWB)circularly polarized(CP)antenna array for vehicular communications is proposed.The antenna array consists of a 2×2 sequentially rotated T-shaped cross dipole,four parasitic elements,and a feeding network.By loading the T-shaped cross dipoles with parasitic rectangular elements with cut corners,the bandwidth can be expanded.On this basis,the radiation pattern can be improved by the topology with sequential rotation of four T-shaped cross-dipole antennas,and the axial ratio(AR)bandwidth of the antenna also can be further enhanced.In addition,due to the special topology that the vertical arms of all Tshaped cross dipoles are all oriented toward the center of the antenna array,the gain of proposed antenna is improved while the size of the antenna is almost the same as the traditional cross dipole.Simulated and measured results show that the proposed antenna has good CP characteristics,an impedance bandwidth for S11<-10 d B of about 106.1%(3.26:1,1.57-5.12 GHz)and the 3-d B AR bandwidth of about 104.1%(3.17:1,1.57-4.98 GHz),a wide 3-d B gain bandwidth of 73.3%as well as the peak gain of 8.6 d Bic at 3.5 GHz.The overall size of antenna is 0.56λ×0.56λ×0.12λ(λrefers to the wavelength of the lowest operating frequency in free space).The good performance of this compact UWB CP antenna array is promising for applications in vehicular communications.

Channel modeling and influenced factor analysis of the broadband dual-orthogonal polarized MIMO land mobile satellite channel

An accurate, complete and realistic channel model is re- quired to accurately analyze the system performance of a multiple input multiple output （MIMO） broadband satellite mobile commu- nication system with dual-orthogonal polarized antennas （DPAs）. In most current studies, the channel characteristic matrix （CCM） is always formed by an independent identical distribution （i.i.d） model of Rayleigh or Rice distribution and nevertheless incomplete and inaccurate to describe a broadband dual-orthogonal polarized MIMO land mobile satellite （BDM-LMS） channel. This paper fo- cuses on establishing the BDM-LMS channel statistical model, which combines the 4-state broadband LMS channel model, the time selective fading features, the channel covariance information （CCI） channel model and polarization correlations between an- tennas. The modeling steps of the channel model are introduced. The main emphasis is placed on the effects of the factors, such as antenna numbers, temporal correlations, terminal environments, elevation angles and polarization correlations between the DPAs, on the channel capacity in the BDM-LMS system. Many simulation results are provided to illustrate the effects of these factors through comparisons of the transmit rate, ergodic capacity and outage capacity with different factor values. Besides, the MIMO outage capacity advantages, which indicate the benefits of MIMO com- pared with a single input single output （SISO） system under the same channel condition, are also studied under i.i.d or BDM-LMS channel.

Communication System for Nanosatellite Earth Observation

This paper proposes a communication system for nanosatellite Earth observa-tion preliminary design technique as useful tools for managing and improving various aspects of regional and national resources. Under analysis was pro-posed a design process for the low Earth orbit nanosatellite communication system. In proposed paper have been formulated and solved next goals: re-viewed Earth observation systems and studied their design parameters, ana-lyzed the on-board antennas design background and provided analytical esti-mations, such as design a passband quadrature phase shift keying transmitter and receiver in Simulink, was obtained a bit error rate curves by using a Sim-ulink/MathWorks, generated an offset quadrature phase shift keying waveform and investigated their characteristics, observed and analyzed the diagrams, constellation, and the signal trajectories of quadrature phase shift keying ac-cording contemporary design concept. As a result, this allows to propose in-novative communication system design techniques applied for the nanosatel-lite category.

Th-Shaped Tunable Multi-Band Antenna for Modern Wireless Applications

A compact,reconfigurable antenna supporting multiple wireless services with a minimum number of switches is found lacking in literature and the same became the focus and outcome of this work.It was achieved by designing a Th-Shaped frequency reconfigurable multi-band microstrip planar antenna,based on use of a single switch within the radiating structure of the antenna.Three frequency bands(i.e.,2007–2501 MHz,3660–3983MHz and 9341–1046 MHz)can be operated with the switch in the ON switch state.In the OFF state of the switch,the antenna operates within the 2577–3280MHz and 9379–1033MHz Bands.The proposed antenna shows an acceptable input impedance match with Voltage Standing Wave Ratio(VSWR)less than 1.2.The peak radiation efficiency of the antenna is 82%.A reasonable gain is obtained from 1.22 to 3.31 dB within the operating bands is achieved.The proposed antenna supports UniversalMobile Telecommunication System(UMTS)-1920 to 2170 MHz,Worldwide Interoperability and Microwave Access(WiMAX)/Wireless Broadband/(Long Term Evolution)LTE2500–2500 to 2690 MHz,Fifth Generation(5G)-2500/3500 MHz,Wireless Fidelity(Wi-Fi)/Bluetooth-2400 to 2480 MHz,and Satellite communication applications in X-Band-8000 to 12000 MHz.The overall planar dimension of the proposed antenna is 40×20mm2.The antennawas designed,along with the parametric study,using Electromagnetic(EM)simulation tool.The antenna prototype is fabricated for experimental validation with the simulated results.The proposed antenna is low profile,tunable,lightweight,cheap to fabricate and highly efficient and hence is deemed suitable for use in modern wireless communication electronic devices.

LEO卫星系统对GSO卫星系统干扰规避技术研究

近年,低地轨道(Low Earth Orbit,LEO)卫星星座繁荣发展,LEO卫星系统和地球静止轨道(Geosynchronous Orbit,GSO)卫星系统同频共用情况非常普遍,同频段内LEO卫星系统需要规避GSO卫星系统的上下行干扰。LEO卫星系统对GSO卫星系统干扰规避方法和策略包含调整指向、更改频率、降低功率和关闭波束。在对系统干扰规避模式及干扰区域情况进行仿真基础上,结合LEO卫星系统特点,提出经过规避区域时切换信关站或者馈电链路关闭下行波束的方案。用户链路结合相控阵天线特点,信令波束通过上注星载相控阵天线波位表实现干扰规避;业务波束通过上注干扰规避区域对应的地面网格编码实现干扰规避,提出不同链路干扰规避实施方案和实现流程。

基于超表面的卫星天线设计进展综述

超表面是由亚波长尺寸单元密集排布组成的平面结构,具有强大的电磁波调控能力,而基于超表面的新型卫星天线在缓解业务多样化和用户数量激增方面极具潜力。介绍了目前卫星天线发展现状趋势,对传统天线加载超表面和单一超表面天线加以区分,归纳了加载超表面后天线所具有的低剖面、多极化、波束控制等优势,综述了超表面作为主要辐射元件的天线设计。分析了超表面在不同天线设计方案中的工作原理、效能以及存在的优势与不足,最后讨论了超表面卫星天线的发展方向,指出超表面技术在卫星天线设计领域中具有实用价值。

基于MVDR算法的卫星通信地球站面天线组阵抗干扰仿真研究

现代战争中,大量指挥控制和情报信息通过卫星传输,卫星通信地球站的抗干扰能力是保证信息通畅的基础。针对多个小型地球站受干扰无法通信的情况,提出基于面天线阵列的最小方差无失真响应(MVDR)算法。首先分析卫星通信地球站天线要素,给出面天线的增益表达式,建立面天线阵列接收信号的数学模型;然后研究MVDR改进算法波束形成机理,推导出反射面天线阵列输出信干噪比和最优权矢量的算式,分析均匀线阵在部分角度抗干扰效果不佳的原因,并针对该问题提出一种阵列布设逼近最小冗余阵且阵元位置互质的线性阵列;最后通过多组仿真实验验证所提算法对于提升阵列抗干扰性能的有效性。仿真结果表明,所提算法可提高面天线阵列的卫星方向增益、增大阵列的输出信干噪比、有效抑制卫星通信下行链路干扰。

基于FBG传感器的卫星天线形变重构技术

针对由温度变化和外界机械载荷等因素引起的卫星天线结构形变重构需求,提出了一种基于光纤布拉格光栅(FBG)传感器的可视化形变重构技术。利用非金属封装材料和聚酰亚胺光纤光栅制备了FBG应变传感器和温度传感器进行应变与温度的测量,采用光纤传感解调系统实现结构的形变重构。搭建了变温环境天线结构模拟试件形变重构测试平台,采用激光测距仪完成对比测试。研究结果表明,通过相同工艺制备的FBG传感器具有很好的一致性,常温下FBG传感测量的误差小于5.94%,变温环境下的测量误差小于6.97%。重构后的曲面能够真实反映模拟试件的形变情况,验证了该系统的有效性。该技术在卫星天线结构形变重构领域中有良好的应用前景。

手机直连卫星关键技术分析与发展展望

手机直连卫星技术的快速发展是卫星载荷技术突破、手机终端技术创新、体制标准制定并验证等多种因素叠加的结果,通过对手机直连卫星发展现状的介绍,总结了手机直连卫星的2条技术路线和3种实现方式。面对星地频率共用、星载天线、星载基站等技术瓶颈,结合实际系统和应用场景给出了重点研究内容。探讨了作为5G通信重要组成部分和6G通信基础支撑的手机直连卫星技术未来的发展方向。

宽波束赋形天线星地测试技术分析与改进

为满足风云三号G星长寿命、高可靠、业务化的工作要求,星上数传天线采用通信性能好、覆盖率高的宽波束赋形设计。但宽波束赋形天线测试技术相对复杂,对测试质量有潜在影响。文章重点阐述了风云三号G星数传天线设计方案的必要性,建立星地链路余量分析,对星载数传天线的仿真和试验结果比对进行分析,验证了天线方向图测试结果的有效性,并对星载天线和地面系统的测试技术提出改进,提高了测试结果的准确性和完整性。相应技术的改进可以为平台方案相近的空间辐射测量基准卫星平台系统综合试验验证技术提供支撑。