A survey on CubeSat missions and their antenna designs

S Liu, PI Theoharis, R Raad, F Tubbal, A Theoharis… - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
CubeSats are a class of miniaturized satellites that have become increasingly popular in
academia and among hobbyists due to their short development time and low fabrication …

Advanced cubesat antennas for deep space and earth science missions: A review

N Chahat, E Decrossas… - IEEE Antennas and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Small satellites (smallsats) provide low-cost access to space and have historically been
used for flight technology demonstrations and limited-function space science activities …

Metamaterial array based meander line planar antenna for cube satellite communication

T Alam, AF Almutairi, M Samsuzzaman, M Cho… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
This research article presents a design and performance analysis of a metamaterial inspired
ultra-high frequency (UHF) compact planar patch antenna for the CubeSat communication …

UHF deployable helical antennas for CubeSats

J Costantine, Y Tawk, I Maqueda… - … on Antennas and …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The design process and the deployment mechanism of a quadrifilar helix antenna (QHA)
and a conical log spiral antenna (CLSA) are presented. The two antennas are proposed to …

Origami-Inspired Radiation Pattern and Shape Reconfigurable Dipole Array Antenna at C-Band for CubeSat Applications

M Hwang, G Kim, S Kim… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents an antenna structure with a reconfigurable pattern and polarization for
CubeSat applications. The proposed antenna is based on spatial-map** origami theory …

A multi-stable deployable quadrifilar helix antenna with radiation reconfigurability for disaster-prone areas

RM Bichara, J Costantine, Y Tawk… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
In disaster-prone areas, damaged infrastructure requires impromptu communications
leveraging lightweight and adaptive antennas. Accordingly, we introduce a bi-stable …

Transparent and Nontransparent Microstrip Antennas on a CubeSat: Novel low-profile antennas for CubeSats improve mission reliability

X Liu, DR Jackson, J Chen, J Liu… - IEEE Antennas and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article reviews the development of some novel low-profile antennas for CubeSats. The
integrated antennas were developed using microstrip-antenna technology, and the …

Integration design of filtering antenna with load-insensitive multilayer balun filter

H Tang, JX Chen, H Chu, GQ Zhang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Integration design of a filtering antenna fed by a load-insensitive multimode balun bandpass
filter is proposed in this paper. The balun filter is designed and realized using multilayer …

Analysis of a packable and tunable origami multi-radii helical antenna

X Liu, CL Zekios, SV Georgakopoulos - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the design process of a multi-radii monofilar helical antenna that can
operate in three different bands with circular polarization. The antenna is comprised of two …

Solar-powered active integrated antennas backed by a transparent reflectarray for CubeSat applications

YS Chen, YH Wu, CC Chung - IEEE access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A gain-enhancement scheme that combines an active integrated antenna (AIA) and an
optically transparent reflectarray on solar cells is proposed for CubeSat applications. As …