Meter-Scale Thin-Walled Structure with Lattice Infill for Fuel Tank Supporting Component of Satellite:Multiscale Design and Experimental Verification

Lightweight thin-walled structures with lattice infill are widely desired in satellite for their high stiffness-to-weight ratio and superior buckling strength resulting fromthe sandwich effect.Such structures can be fabricated bymetallic additive manufacturing technique,such as selective laser melting(SLM).However,the maximum dimensions of actual structures are usually in a sub-meter scale,which results in restrictions on their appliance in aerospace and other fields.In this work,a meter-scale thin-walled structure with lattice infill is designed for the fuel tank supporting component of the satellite by integrating a self-supporting lattice into the thickness optimization of the thin-wall.The designed structure is fabricated by SLM of AlSi10Mg and cold metal transfer welding technique.Quasi-static mechanical tests and vibration tests are both conducted to verify the mechanical strength of the designed large-scale lattice thin-walled structure.The experimental results indicate that themeter-scale thin-walled structure with lattice infill could meet the dimension and lightweight requirements of most spacecrafts.

Zenith Pass Problem of Inter-satellite Linkage Antenna Based on Program Guidance Method

While adopting an elevation-over-azimuth architecture by an inter-satellite linkage antenna of a user satellite, a zenith pass problem always occurs when the antenna is tracing the tracking and data relay satellite （TDRS）. This paper deals with this problem by way of, firstly, introducing movement laws of the inter-satellite linkage to predict the movement of the user satellite antenna followed by analyzing the potential pass moment and the actual one of the zenith pass in detail. A number of specific orbit altitudes for the user satellite that can remove the blindness zone are obtained. Finally, on the base of the predicted results from the movement laws of the inter-satellite linkage, the zenith pass tracing strategies for the user satellite antenna are designed under the program guidance using a trajectory preprocessor. Simulations have confirmed the reasonability and feasibility of the strategies in dealing with the zenith pass problem.

An Elliptical-Beam Reflector Antenna forSatellite Communication System

An offset elliptical reflector antenna suitable for satellite application was designed and investigated when it was fed by a rectangular horn partially filled.with a dielectric..The.reflector antenna exhibits high gain, low cross polarization. low sidelines and an elliptical beam. Al- though this study has been carried out in view of possible satellite applications, it is clear that this. antenna. is also suitable for use in radar antennas.

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.

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.

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 21°. The antenna has been successfully used with a HNS 9201 terminal.

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

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.

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.

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.

GNSS spoofing detection for single antenna receivers via CNR variation monitoring

In this paper,a method for spoofing detection based on the variation of the signal’s carrier-to-noise ratio(CNR)is proposed.This method leverages the directionality of the antenna to induce varying gain changes in the signals across different incident directions,resulting in distinct CNR variations for each signal.A model is developed to calculate the variation value of the signal CNR based on the antenna gain pattern.This model enables the differentiation of the variation values of the CNR for authentic satellite signals and spoofing signals,thereby facilitating spoofing detection.The proposed method is capable of detecting spoofing signals with power and CNR similar to those of authentic satellite signals.The accuracy of the signal CNR variation value calculation model and the effectiveness of the spoofing detection method are verified through a series of experiments.In addition,the proposed spoofing detection method works not only for a single spoofing source but also for distributed spoofing sources.

Design of Three-Element Circular Polarization Antenna Array Based on Sequentially Rotated Feed Technique

Circularly polarized antennas are used in communications between ground stations and satellites to achieve reliable communication links.The right-hand circular polarization and left-hand circular polarization are two types of circular polarization in satellite communications,they are used to support uplink and downlink communications.Circularly polarized antennas are used also in radar system for target detection,tracking and identification.The“three-element circularly polarized microstrip array antenna”is designed to produce left-handed circular polarization,make its size compact,make its bandwidth wider than 3.7-4.2GHz and achieve high gain.Circular polarization element antenna and three-element circularly polarized microstrip array antenna are designed and simulated in software HFSS,and the circular polarization element antenna is manufactured and tested in anechoic chamber.For circular polarization element antenna and three-element circularly polarized microstrip array antenna,the study analyzed these parameters:AR,S(1,1),VSWR,bandwidth,normalized impedance,gain and realized gain,radiation efficiency.After optimized,the study get the required results of them.

IGSO卫星Ka多波束极地卫星通信系统设计

随着极地科考活动的逐年增加,极地用户与境内的卫星通信需求也越加旺盛,但是现有技术还不能很好地满足。相比地球静止轨道(Geostationary Orbit,GEO),倾斜地球同步轨道(Inclined GeoSynchronous Orbit,IGSO)卫星具有两极覆盖性好的优点,设计了一种基于IGSO卫星的Ka多波束极地通信系统,重点给出了其中Ka多波束天线的设计和分析方法。系统可在极地形成大范围的多波束覆盖,支持多个散布用户的接入,并具有波束在轨重构能力,通过单波束提供更高的通信速率。

Q/V频段三轴天线系统设计与实现

针对高端低轨信关站对Q/V频段卫星信号高质量接收的需求,研制了一款Q/V频段三轴天线系统,解决了天线系统高频段卫星信号的收发共用和自动跟踪的技术难题。提出了高精度天线结构优化设计、多模自适应角度零值指向控制两大关键技术,在此基础上开发了一款高精度、低成本的Q/V频段三轴4.5 m反射面天线样机,并完成相关的测试和试验验证,实现了Q/V频段信号高可靠接收和高精度过顶跟踪。所设计的天线样机增益、噪温、差波束零深、指向精度、跟踪精度等指标均满足设计要求,跟踪精度可达0.0083°且优于1/10倍半功率波束宽度,对高频段天线的设计具有重要的借鉴意义。

基于低轨卫星互联网的双模通信终端技术

随着全球对互联网连接需求的不断增长,传统地面网络受限于地理环境和基础设施建设,难以满足日益增长的网络需求。低轨互联网卫星技术以独特的优势为全球通信网络发展提供了新的解决方案。文章深入探讨了基于低轨卫星互联网的双模通信终端技术,通过集成低轨卫星通信与地面蜂窝网络等通信模式,实现了全球范围内的无缝通信覆盖。阐述了双模通信终端技术的优势,并在技术层面详细介绍了其架构设计、关键技术实现及性能优化策略(包括卫星与地面网络的切换机制、天线设计、信号处理算法等),通过对应用场景的分析,展示了双模通信终端的广阔应用前景。

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.

Low Profile UHF Antenna Design for Low Earth-Observation CubeSats

This paper reveals a new design of UHF CubeSat antenna based on a modified Planar Inverted F Antenna(PIFA)for CubeSat communication.The design utilizes a CubeSat face as the ground plane.There is a gap of 5 mm beneath the radiating element that facilitates the design providing with space for solar panels.The prototype is fabricated using Aluminum metal sheet and measured.The antenna achieved resonance at 419 MHz.Response of the antenna has been investigated after placing a solar panel.Lossy properties of solar panels made the resonance shift about 20 MHz.This design addresses the frequency shifting issue after placing the antenna with the CubeSat body.This phenomenon has been analyzed considering a typical 1U and 2U CubeSat body with the antenna.The antenna achieved a positive realized gain of 0.7 dB and approximately 78%of efficiency at the resonant frequency with providing 85%of open space for solar irradiance onto the solar panel.