Multiband circularly polarised CubeSat antenna operating in S, C, X, Ku, K, and Ka bands

Abstract

Abstract A novel design of a high‐frequency multiband with a circular polarisation antenna based on a four‐patch antenna system consolidated with an Archimedean spiral antenna for CubeSat applications. The geometry and size are compatible with the CubeSat standard structure dimensions of 10 × 10 cm2. The antenna consists of a spiral antenna in the middle of four patch antennas surrounding it; the first antenna structure consists of two sets of two orthogonal identical patch antennas with a 90° phase shift to cover the band from 1.55 to 1.94 GHz at L‐band, 2, 2.1, and 2.3 GHz at S‐band, the second antenna is an Archimedean spiral antenna to cover all C‐bands, all X‐bands, all Ku‐bands, all K‐bands, and from 26 to 29 GHz at Ka‐band. The measured results show that the reflection coefficients (S11) and (S22) achieve < −10 dB and the axial ratio achieves <3 dB, with a reference impedance of 50 Ω. The simulated and the measured results give a better agreement.

Keywords

• antennas
• antenna feeds
• antenna radiation patterns
• satellite antennas