VHF/UHF Kapton supported antenna for cubesat applications
This paper addresses an original concept for very low mass planar flexible Kapton supported antenna for cubesat application. In order to illustrate the concept a dual band VHF/UHF planar cross dipole antenna is presented. This circularly polarized antenna is compatible with the integration requirements for a cubesat mission and demonstrates very good performances in terms of input matching and radiation pattern.
2017 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting