Antenna Design for TriHex: A Future Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity Radiometer Mission
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Garcia-Garcia, Q.; Lopez-Yela, A.; Zurita, A.; Olea, A.; Martin-Neira, M.; Gandini, E.; Suess, M.
- Source
- 2024 18th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP) Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2024 18th European Conference on. :1-5 Mar, 2024
- Subject
- Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Phased arrays
Sea surface
Instruments
Receiving antennas
Radiometry
SMOS mission
Manufacturing
antennas
patch antennas
satellite antennas
radiometer systems
SMOS
MIRAS
L-band receivers
- Language
ESA's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission, is providing L-band observations of the Earth surface since November 2009. In preparation of a future L-band mission, ESA is involved in several technological activities intended to develop the components for an advanced L-band radiometer mission. In this context this paper presents the current design status of the antenna element that constitutes the first stage of the advanced L-band receiver unit that populates the aperture synthesis radiometer instrument.