In-situ Antenna Pointing Angle Calibration for Q-band Satellite Ground Station

Wei Fan; Yang Wen; Lizhu Meng; Patrick Eggers; Fengchun Zhang; Igor Syrytsin; Johannus Kristmundsson; Suiyan Geng; Gert Pedersen

doi:10.1109/lawp.2020.2996950

In-situ Antenna Pointing Angle Calibration for Q-band Satellite Ground Station

Wei Fan, Yang Wen, Lizhu Meng, Patrick Eggers, Fengchun Zhang, Igor Syrytsin, Johannus Kristmundsson, Suiyan Geng, Gert Pedersen

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Exploration of millimeter-wave (mmWave) bands has gained a significant interest in satellite communications. mmWave satellite communication link quality is highly sensitive to the pointing angle of the antenna in the ground station, due to its high directivity. For the multiantenna ground station design, it is also of importance to know pointing angles and angle difference of all antenna elements. However, it is challenging in the real-world setup. In this letter, we propose a novel calibration technique to estimate the electrical antenna pointing angle of the in situ ground station based on the received signal power pattern on the ground station, which is time-variant according to the satellite in-orbital motion. The proposed algorithm is numerically simulated and experimentally validated, demonstrating its effectiveness for the in situ antenna pointing angle calibration.

Original language	Undefined/Unknown
Pages (from-to)	1246-1250
Number of pages	5
Journal	IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
Volume	19
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/lawp.2020.2996950
Publication status	Published - 2020

Keywords

satellite communication
radio propagation
Beacon receiver design
satellite antennas

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39.402 GHz Satellite Beacon Receiver
Eggers, P. (PI), Kristmundsson, J. (PI) & Syrytsin, I. (PI)
1/11/16 → 30/06/18
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In-situ Antenna Pointing Angle Calibration for Q-band Satellite Ground Station

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