Technologies for Spacecraft Antenna Engineering Design (Space Science and Technologies)

This book focuses on engineering design approaches for spacecraft antennas. Based on their functions in spacecraft, it discusses practical antenna design, measurement and testing. Most of the antennas covered originated at the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST), which has launched almost 300 satellites into orbit. The book presents antenna systems for seven existing spacecraft designs, while also introducing readers to new antenna technologies for spacecraft.

 

This book is intended for researchers, graduate students, and engineers in various fields of aerospace technology and astronautics, especially spacecraft design, communication engineering and related areas.

Professor YOU Rui graduated from Southeast University (Nanjing, China) in 1982. He has been engaged in satellite antenna design for more than 30 years. Many of the antennas he has designed have been successfully used in orbit. As a key antenna engineer, his design activities involve space-borne antenna systems for meteorological satellites, remote sensing satellites, communication satellites, space science satellites etc. Professor You served as director of the antenna division and deputy director of the technology commission at Beijing Institute of Spacecraft System Engineering (BISSE), China Academy of Space Technology (CAST). He is also a project manager for the hard X ray modulation telescope (HXMT), China’s first space telescope for science, which launched in 2017. His current research interests include terahertz payloads and new missions in space.