GDPAA Advanced Technology Demonstration overview and results

2010 IEEE International Symposium on Phased Array Systems and Technology Pub Date : 2010-10-28 DOI:10.1109/ARRAY.2010.5613380

M. Henderson, Mark Davis, M. Huisjen

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The United States Air Force (USAF), through the Air Force Research Laboratories (AFRL) and the Space and Missile Command (SMC), has been working with the aerospace industry to develop technologies to incorporate the rapid beam pointing capabilities and multi-beam pointing capabilities of electronically steered arrays (ESA) to the Air Force Satellite Control Network (AFSCN). Investigations at AFRL have indicated that an ESA can be a low-cost solution to provide increased capability to AFSCN to meet growing capacity needs. Additional AFRL studies have indicated that spherical array geometry is optimal for ground-based satellite control antennas for performance and deployment cost of an ESA. An innovative Geodesic Dome Phased Array Antenna (GDPAA) was put forth as a significant and viable improvement to the conventional, 50-year-old parabolic reflector antenna systems currently in use. This paper summarizes the design and development of the GDPAA Advanced Technology Demonstration (ATD) program at Ball Aerospace and presents the results of demonstration testing performed at Schriever Air Force Base (SAFB).

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GDPAA先进技术演示概述和结果

美国空军(USAF)通过空军研究实验室(AFRL)和空间与导弹司令部(SMC)，一直在与航空航天工业合作开发技术，将电子制导阵列(ESA)的快速波束指向能力和多波束指向能力纳入空军卫星控制网络(AFSCN)。AFRL的研究表明，ESA可以作为一种低成本的解决方案，为AFSCN提供更高的能力，以满足不断增长的容量需求。另外的AFRL研究表明，从性能和部署成本方面考虑，球面阵列几何结构是地面卫星控制天线的最佳选择。提出了一种创新的测地线圆顶相控阵天线(GDPAA)，对目前使用的已有50年历史的传统抛物面反射天线系统进行了重大而可行的改进。本文总结了Ball Aerospace公司GDPAA先进技术演示(ATD)项目的设计和开发，并介绍了在施里弗空军基地(SAFB)进行的演示测试结果。

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