Calculation of geostationary satellite foot-prints for certain idealized antennas
Abstract
Methods are described for calculating under certain simplifying assumptions, footprints (contours of constant power density) for idealized models of several common types of transmitting antennas (circular aperture, elliptical aperture, rectangular aperture, and helical beam antennas), and for antenna beams of specified but rather arbitrary shape. The transmitter is mounted on a satellite at a prescribed location in the geostationary orbit and has its main lobe axis directed toward a given aim point on the Earth.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- October 1980
- Bibcode:
- 1980STIN...8127394S
- Keywords:
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- Antenna Radiation Patterns;
- Computation;
- Directional Antennas;
- Satellite Antennas;
- Electromagnetic Radiation;
- Helical Antennas;
- Radiation Distribution;
- Synchronous Satellites;
- Communications and Radar