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 ...

Arianespace Secures Contract for 10 Ariane 64 Launch Vehicles, Allocating Six Missions to Amazon Leo ICEYE and Arianespace Execute Agreement to Evaluate Ariane 6 for Sovereign SAR Missions Cailabs and ...

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 ...

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 ...

A satellite antenna the width of a small car, folded down to fit inside a box barely larger than a loaf of bread. That is the engineering trick a team at the Institute of Science Tokyo has pulled off ...

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 ...

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 ...