ANYWAVES has been selected by the French Space Agency (CNES) to demonstrate the technical feasibility of a Reflectarray antenna for smallsats. Selected from a call for tender, the French manufacturer ...

DARPA's Radio Frequency Risk Reduction Deployment Demonstration (R3D2) is set for launch in late February to space-qualify a new type of membrane reflectarray antenna. The antenna, made of a ...

The Mechanical Assembly for Reflectarray Antennas of SmallSats (MARAS) project, funded through ESA ARTES 4.0, will enable small telecommunications satellites to take their antenna capabilities to the ...

Reflectarray antennas combine the low profile of phased arrays with the simple geometry of reflectors to steer microwave beams for satellite links. They are composed of an array of scattering elements ...

Researchers developed and tested a deployable antenna for the 3U CubeSat OrigamiSat-2. Weighing only 64 grams and achieving a storage ratio of 265%, the antenna enables CubeSats to transmit data at ...

Meridian Space, the space infrastructure company enabling governments and commercial organizations to own and control their own low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite networks, today announced the successful ...

This article originally appeared in the Sept. 2, 2019 issue of SpaceNews magazine. Satellite operators ranging from lean startups to powerful defense agencies are experimenting with flexible materials ...

The total amount of money invested in the project. The total cost includes EU contribution as well as other project costs not covered by EU funding. It is expressed in euros. Amount of money, by way ...

In the last decade, there has been an expectation that increasing amounts of complex data be delivered faster ― and at higher quality ― through the use of revolutionary antenna systems. To expedite ...

LOUISVILLE, Colo., - DARPA’s Radio Frequency Risk Reduction Deployment Demonstration (R3D2) is set for launch in late February to space-qualify a new type of membrane reflectarray antenna. The antenna ...