Summary

Description

<p>This IRAD proposal investigates and proposes different small, efficient, low cost, reliable, and robust antenna design concepts with stable electrical and radiation characteristics in harsh space environments for cube/small satellites. Objective 1: Investigate what type of novel antennas have been considered, designed and implemented on previous CubeSat/Small Satellites. Objective 2: Perform some analytical and numerical analysis work to come up with a design skeleton. Objective 3: Running simulations to further optimize proposed antenna designs as well as investigate performance in the presence of physical small satellite structures. Objective 4: Designing a novel CubeSat/Small satellite antenna baseline.</p>