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1 year ago in Aerospace Engineering , Telecommunications Engineering By Neethi
We’re exploring reconfigurable antennas for smart beamforming on High-Altitude Platform Stations (HAPS) and Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites. What’s the current state-of-the-art and the major engineering trade-offs?
My team is in the early design phase for a next-generation communications payload. The requirement is for a single antenna aperture that can dynamically reconfigure its beam pattern for rapid ground-user tracking, interference nulling, and coverage shaping across a wide field-of-view. For HAPS and LEO platforms, we're severely constrained by size, weight, power (SWaP), and thermal management. I need a clear picture of which reconfigurable technologies—phased arrays, fluidic antennas, metasurfaces—are most viable, and what the real-world system integration headaches are.
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By Amrita Goyal Answered 1 year ago
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