This paper addresses key technologies under development at the NASA Glenn Research Center designed to provide architecture-level impacts. Specifically, we describe deployable antennas, a new type of phased array antenna and novel power amplifiers. The evaluation of architectural influence can be conducted from two perspectives where said architecture can be analyzed from either the "top-down" to determine the areas where technology improvements will be most beneficial or from the "bottom-up" where each technology's performance advancement can affect the overall architecture's performance. This paper takes the latter approach with focus on some technology improvement challenges and address architecture impacts. For example, using data rate as a performance metric, future exploration scenarios are expected to demand data rates possibly exceeding 1 Gbps. To support these advancements in a Mars scenario, as an example, Ka-band and antenna aperture sizes on the order of 10 meters will be required from Mars areostationary platforms. Key technical challenges for a large deployable antenna include maximizing the ratio of deployed-to-packaged volume, minimizing aerial density, maintaining RMS surface accuracy to within 1/20 of a wavelength or better, and developing reflector rigidization techniques. Moreover, the high frequencies and large apertures manifest a new problem for microwave engineers that are familiar to optical communications specialists: pointing. The fine beam widths and long ranges dictate the need for electronic or mechanical feed articulation to compensate for spacecraft attitude control limitations.


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    Titel :

    RF technologies for advancing space communication infrastructure


    Beteiligte:
    Bibyk, I. (Autor:in) / Romanofsky, R. (Autor:in) / Wintucky, E. (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    01.01.2006


    Format / Umfang :

    1986687 byte




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch



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