A rotatable and scannable reflector with a moveable feed system

A reconfigurable antenna system (10) having a rotatable and scannable reflector (20) with a movable feed system (28). The antenna system (10) allows beam shapes to be rotated about an optimum axis (24) and defocused while a spacecraft is in orbit in order to change a particular coverage pattern for...

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Hauptverfasser: FERMELIA, LOUIS R, CASCIA, VINCENT E, RAMANUJAM, PARTHASARATHY, PARK, BRIAN M
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Sprache:eng ; fre ; ger
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Zusammenfassung:A reconfigurable antenna system (10) having a rotatable and scannable reflector (20) with a movable feed system (28). The antenna system (10) allows beam shapes to be rotated about an optimum axis (24) and defocused while a spacecraft is in orbit in order to change a particular coverage pattern for the spacecraft.