This paper provides an overview of the activities on GEO Optical Feeder Links at Viasat Inc. In the last decade, laser communication has emerged as a promising technology for advancing the performance of high-capacity satellites and enhancing the security ...
This paper outlines the development of an electronically steerable receive-only array antenna realized within a project funded by the European Space Agency (ESA): the NATALIA project. The antenna has been designed for the reception of mobile satellite serv ...
This paper presents an innovative switched-beam architecture for a low-cost mobile-terminal antenna, suitable for linear-polarized satellite communications systems. This antenna concept can produce twelve adjacent sector beams that cover the full azimuth f ...