Feed-Cluster for Reflector-Based SAR Antenna
Konferenz: EUSAR 2006 - 6th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
16.05.2006 - 18.05.2006 in Dresden, Germany
Tagungsband: EUSAR 2006
Seiten: 4Sprache: EnglischTyp: PDF
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Autoren:
Koch, Peter; Heer, Christoph (EADS Astrium GmbH, Germany)
Kanderhaag, Leif; Viberg, Mattias (Saab Ericsson Space, Sweden)
Guijarro, Juan; Klooster, Kees van’t (ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands)
Inhalt:
Recent SAR instruments e.g. ASAR/ENVISAT or the upcoming TerraSAR-X use active phased array antennas with electronic beam steering capability for wide swath coverage. Although such instruments provide high flexibility and performance, the need for a low cost SAR can be identified for various mission cases already. A way to reduce cost is the use of a multi-feed/ reflector hybrid approach. The ‘Multi-Pencil-Beam’-Concept based on a feed-cluster system has been elaborated and investigated in a former ESA study [Ref.1]. Recently, EADS Astrium GmbH and Saab Ericsson Space have been awarded by ESA to continue the study including the bread-boarding of such a feed-cluster.