Tropospheric/ionospheric transmission tests
Abstract
Four tests are described which are designed to evaluate the magnitude, type, and frequency of occurence of amplitude and phase variations in the solar power satellite power (SPS) beam as seen by the rectenna. Particular attention is given to the degree of deviation in the propagation observed under two conditions unique to the SPS: monochromaticity; and smallness of the effective aperture of individual rectenna element dipoles.
- Publication:
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A Theoretetical Study of Microwave Beam Absorption by a Rectenna
- Pub Date:
- January 1981
- Bibcode:
- 1981tsmb.nasa..111.
- Keywords:
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- Beams (Radiation);
- Ionospheric Propagation;
- Solar Power Satellites;
- Antenna Arrays;
- Microwave Transmission;
- Microwaves;
- Satellite Power Transmission;
- Signal To Noise Ratios;
- Communications and Radar