Spaceborne cloud and precipitation radars: Status, challenges, and ways forward

A Battaglia, P Kollias, R Dhillon, R Roy… - Reviews of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Spaceborne radars offer a unique three‐dimensional view of the atmospheric components
of the Earth's hydrological cycle. Existing and planned spaceborne radar missions provide …

Application of adaptive reliability importance sampling-based extended domain PSO on single mode failure in reliability engineering

B Bai, Z Guo, C Zhou, W Zhang, J Zhang - Information Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
The failures of mechanical structure featuring high nonlinearity, non-normal and non-
independent are implicit function and small-probability events. This normally results in low …

Enabling the Internet of Things with CubeSats: A review of representative beamsteerable antenna concepts

J Wang, V Manohar… - IEEE Antennas and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The advent of CubeSats has empowered the vision of using a satellite constellation to
provide seamless Internet coverage across the globe. This vision, known as the Internet of …

Flat‐Knit, Flexible, Textile Metasurfaces

MJ Carter, L Resneck, Y Ra'di, N Yu - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Lightweight, low‐cost metasurfaces and reflectarrays that are easy to stow and deploy are
desirable for many terrestrial and space‐based communications and sensing applications …

An irregular two-sizes square tiling method for the design of isophoric phased arrays

P Rocca, N Anselmi, A Polo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The design of isophoric phased arrays composed of two-sized square-shaped tiles that fully
cover rectangular apertures is dealt with. The number and the positions of the tiles within the …

Circularly polarized high gain leaky-wave antenna for CubeSat communication

X Li, J Wang, G Goussetis… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, a novel planar leaky-wave antenna (LWA) and its array are proposed and
presented for CubeSat communication applications. Using the substrate-integrated …

Parabolic deployable mesh antenna with a hingeless system of superelastic SMA ribs and composite tape springs

JH Lim, YB Kim, IS Jang, H Kim, HU Oh - Acta Astronautica, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper describes an experimental and numerical investigation of a compact parabolic
deployable mesh antenna with a hingeless deployment system of superelastic SMA ribs and …

A 7 m× 1.5 m aperture parabolic cylinder deployable mesh reflector antenna for next-generation satellite synthetic aperture radar

Y Rahmat-Samii, J Wang, J Zamora… - … on Antennas and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A high-priority next-generation satellite remote sensing mission necessitates a lightweight
deployable antenna that can fit in the package of low-Earth orbit (LEO) small satellites. In …

Tailoring the time delay of deployable structures using the Intermediate Axis Theorem

CS Bentley, J Butler, RL Harne - Engineering Structures, 2024 - Elsevier
Deployment techniques devised from compliant joints, shape memory materials, and inertial
effects from rotational motion can be employed in deployable structures to realize a time …

Low-cost S-band reconfigurable monopole/patch antenna for CubeSats

AD Johnson, V Manohar… - IEEE Open Journal …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The development of reconfigurable antennas compatible with a CubeSat form factor can aid
several space missions. Often, satellite missions require multiple wireless links with the …