Ku-band Multiple-beam Antenna
Glavkosmos
The Ku-band Multiple-beam Antenna is a spacecraft antenna designed to form a required servicing area and receive signals within its operating frequency band.
Key figurescomparable across the catalogue
- Design life
- 15 years
- Lead time
- 15 months
- TRL
- 9
Normalised to common units so this product can be compared with others in its category. The supplier's own wording is below.
As published by the supplier
- Purpose
- Forming required servicing area; signal reception within the operating frequency band.
- Year of release
- 2012
- Design life
- 15 years
- Lead time
- 15 months
- Brief history of flight qualification
- Antenna goes through flight operation unconditionally since the launch of the spacecraft.
- Frequency band
- Ka
About
The Ku-band Multiple-beam Antenna is a spacecraft component with the primary purpose of forming a required servicing area and facilitating signal reception within its specified operating frequency band. Released in 2012, this antenna boasts a guaranteed service life of 15 years. It has a strong flight heritage, having undergone unconditional flight operation since the launch of the spacecraft it was integrated into. The estimated production and delivery time for this antenna is 15 months. While the product name specifies “Ku-band”, the provided specification table lists the frequency band as “Ka”, which is a discrepancy.
Documentation
No public datasheet yet — request the datasheet / ICD from the supplier.