Vast Satcom Antennas (VASANTs) as an enabling technology for commercial satellite communications

Matthew Stuttard; Sonya Amos; Peter Aspden; Mark Bowyer; Chris Bridges; Steve McLaren

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Vast Satcom Antennas (VASANTs) as an enabling technology for commercial satellite communications

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Vast Satcom Antennas (VASANTs) as an enabling technology for commercial satellite communications

Matthew Stuttard, Sonya Amos, Peter Aspden, Mark Bowyer, Chris Bridges and Steve McLaren

Proceedings of the 16th Reinventing Space Conference (RISpace 2018), pp.1-3

British Interplanetary Society

16th Reinventing Space conference (Royal Aeronautical Society, London, UK, 01/11/2018)

30/10/2018

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Antenna; GEO satcom; In-space manufacturing; Broadband mobile

Vast Satcom Antenna (VASANT) is an ongoing system and business case development study for a very large radio-frequency antenna (>>40m diameter) assembled and/or fabricated in space. Such an antenna would be enabling for radical new commercial satcom services to complement the coming broadband satcom constellations. The disruptive capabilities from such a high gain, high bandwidth antenna include potentially building penetration (at VHF) and support for very compact, omni-directional user terminals.

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Title: Vast Satcom Antennas (VASANTs) as an enabling technology for commercial satellite communications
Creators: Matthew Stuttard
Sonya Amos
Peter Aspden
Mark Bowyer
Chris Bridges
Steve McLaren
Publication Details: Proceedings of the 16th Reinventing Space Conference (RISpace 2018), pp.1-3
Conference: 16th Reinventing Space conference (Royal Aeronautical Society, London, UK, 01/11/2018)
Publisher: British Interplanetary Society
Date submitted: 21/03/2019
Grant note: Funder: UK Space Agency | Grant Title: National Space Technology Programme
Identifiers: 99513580202346
Academic Unit: School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering
Resource Type: Conference presentation

Vast Satcom Antennas (VASANTs) as an enabling technology for commercial satellite communications

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