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Combined Gain Analysis of L-band Transmit Antenna in COMS  

Kim, Joong-Pyo (한국항공우주연구원 위성전자팀)
Yang, Koon-Ho (한국항공우주연구원 통해기체계팀)
Lee, Sang-Kon (한국항공우주연구원 위성전자팀)
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Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications / v.5, no.2, 2010 , pp. 19-24 More about this Journal
Abstract
The COMS (Communication Ocean Meteorological Satellite) is a hybrid geostationary satellite including communication, ocean, and meteorological payloads. The COMS includes the MODCS (Meteorological and Ocean Data Communication Subsystem) which provides transmitting the raw data collected by meteorological payload called MI (Meteorological Imager) and ocean payload named GOCI (Geostationary Ocean Color Imager) to the ground station, and relaying the meteorological data processed on the ground to the end-user stations. Here, for the L-band transmit antenna transmitting SD (Sensor Data) signal and the processed signal, from the system point of view, it is required to estimate the combined antenna gain when the L-band transmit is placed with MI and GOCI payloads on the earth panel of COMS. First of all, the L-band transmit horn is designed and analyzed for the requirements given, and then after placing it on the earth panel, the combined gain analysis is performed using three different analysis methods. It's shown that the obtained gain patterns are very similar among three different analysis methods. Finally the antenna gain degradation of less than 0.5 dB is estimated.
Keywords
geostationary satellites; payloads; large structure; transmit antennas; combined gain;
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