The high-power X-band planetary radar at Goldstone: design, development, and early results.
Abstract
Selected critical microwave components for a 400-kW very-long-pulse (several hours) X-band radar system are discussed from theoretical and practical viewpoints. Included are the special-sized waveguide and flanges, hybrid power combiner, couplers, switches, polarizer, rotary joints, feedhorn, and radome. The system is installed on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Jet Propulsion Laboratory 64-m-diam reflector antenna at Goldstone, CA.
- Publication:
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IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory Techniques
- Pub Date:
- December 1976
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1976ITMTT..24..958H
- Keywords:
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- Microwave Antennas;
- Power Gain;
- Pulse Radar;
- Radar Antennas;
- Radar Astronomy;
- Superhigh Frequencies;
- Antenna Feeds;
- Coupling Circuits;
- Ground Stations;
- Horn Antennas;
- Interplanetary Communication;
- Reflectors;
- Switching Circuits;
- Waveguides;
- Space Communications, Spacecraft Communications, Command and Tracking