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High-gain backup antenna design for Pioneer Venus Orbiter spacecraftThe development and performance is described of a high-gain antenna designed to serve on the Pioneer Venus Orbiter spacecraft as a backup to the principal high-gain antenna unit in the unlikely event the mechanically despun antenna mechanism malfunctioned. The final design, a center-fed standing wave array of six sleeve dipoles enclosed in a fiber glass radome, performed successfully, as did all the antennas, on the Pioneer Orbiter spacecraft which was launched on May 20, 1978, as part of the Pioneer Venus mission. Photographs of experimental models giving details of design and construction are included, as well as graphs showing measured pattern and impedance matching characteristics of the subject antenna.
Document ID
19860061898
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Glaser, J. I.
Date Acquired
August 12, 2013
Publication Date
July 1, 1986
Publication Information
Publication: IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Volume: AP-34
ISSN: 0018-926X
Subject Category
Space Communications, Spacecraft Communications, Command And Tracking
Accession Number
86A46636
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAS2-8300.
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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