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DESCRIPTION:Recent progress in antenna design and propagation modelling for
  Space Exploration will be discussed and illustrated through a wide range 
 of successful NASA missions. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has signif
 icantly contributed to the rapid growth of CubeSat antennas with the devel
 opment of very innovative deployable antennas at X- and Ka-band. The Mars 
 CubeSat One (MarCO) was enabled by a deployable X-band reflectarray that s
 uccessfully transmitted back to Earth critical data from Insight during it
 s Entry Descent and Landing (EDL) phase. A deployable Ka-band mesh reflect
 or was developed for Raincube\, the first radar in a CubeSat\, which after
  a successful deployment on-orbit\, is currently collecting precious preci
 pitation data all over the globe.\nNASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has 
 developed the first Mars helicopter: Mars Ingenuity. The helicopter has th
 e capability to transmit to and receive data from a Mars Rover located at 
 a distance ranging up to 1km. The antenna designs and propagation on the M
 ars surface will be addressed in this talk. Finally\, a new type of dual-b
 and circularly polarized X-band telecommunication antenna is under develop
 ment for the potential Europa Lander whose goal is to find life on the icy
  moon of Jupiter\, Europa. This antenna needs to survive cryogenic tempera
 ture and extreme radiation level while being completely flat and entirely 
 made of metal.\nThis wide overview of missions and antenna developments ai
 ms at showing the different challenges antenna engineers have to face whil
 e designing antennas for space exploration.\n\nZoom info in the location s
 ection\n\nSpeaker(s): Dr. Nacer Chahat\, \n\nVirtual: https://events.vtool
 s.ieee.org/m/269710
LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/269710
ORGANIZER:aabdella@ieee.org
SEQUENCE:7
SUMMARY:Ottawa AP/MTT: Spacecraft Antennas for Earth Science and Planetary 
 Exploration Missions
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/269710
X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>Recent progress in antenna design and prop
 agation modelling for Space Exploration will be discussed and illustrated 
 through a wide range of successful NASA missions. NASA&rsquo\;s Jet Propul
 sion Laboratory has significantly contributed to the rapid growth of CubeS
 at antennas with the development of very innovative deployable antennas at
  X- and Ka-band. The Mars CubeSat One (MarCO) was enabled by a deployable 
 X-band reflectarray that successfully transmitted back to Earth critical d
 ata from Insight during its Entry Descent and Landing (EDL) phase. A deplo
 yable Ka-band mesh reflector was developed for Raincube\, the first radar 
 in a CubeSat\, which after a successful deployment on-orbit\, is currently
  collecting precious precipitation data all over the globe. <br />NASA&rsq
 uo\;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has developed the first Mars helicopter: M
 ars Ingenuity. The helicopter has the capability to transmit to and receiv
 e data from a Mars Rover located at a distance ranging up to 1km. The ante
 nna designs and propagation on the Mars surface will be addressed in this 
 talk. Finally\, a new type of dual-band circularly polarized X-band teleco
 mmunication antenna is under development for the potential Europa Lander w
 hose goal is to find life on the icy moon of Jupiter\, Europa. This antenn
 a needs to survive cryogenic temperature and extreme radiation level while
  being completely flat and entirely made of metal. <br />This wide overvie
 w of missions and antenna developments aims at showing the different chall
 enges antenna engineers have to face while designing antennas for space ex
 ploration.</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Zoom info in the location section</p>
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