Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Low-cost diplexed multiple beam integrated antenna system for LEO satellite constellation
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Application No.: US14608070Application Date: 2015-01-28
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Publication No.: US09698492B2Publication Date: 2017-07-04
- Inventor: Sudhakar K. Rao , Daniel H. Roper , Arun K. Bhattacharyya
- Applicant: NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US VA Falls Church
- Assignee: Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation
- Current Assignee: Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US VA Falls Church
- Agency: Miller IP Group, PLC
- Agent John A. Miller
- Main IPC: H01Q15/24
- IPC: H01Q15/24 ; H01Q21/30 ; H01Q13/02 ; H01Q1/28 ; H01P1/17 ; H01P1/213 ; H01Q21/06

Abstract:
A multiple beam integrated antenna system for a satellite including a support structure having an alignment plate. The antenna system further includes a plurality of feed horns mounted to the alignment plate, where each feed horn includes a plurality of tapered sections that support propagation modes for both up-link signals and down-link signals. A septum polarizer is mounted to an input end of each feed horn that converts linearly polarized signals to circularly polarized signals for the up-link signals and converts circularly polarized signals to linearly polarized signals for the down-link signals. A Y-shaped waveguide is coupled to each of the polarizers and includes separate receive reject and transmit reject filters so as to keep the up-link signals and the down-link signals from interfering with each other. Flex waveguides couple the transmit leg and the receive leg of each Y-shaped waveguide to RF modules.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160218436A1 LOW-COST DIPLEXED MULTIPLE BEAM INTEGRATED ANTENNA SYSTEM FOR LEO SATELLITE CONSTELLATION Public/Granted day:2016-07-28
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