Antenna Technologies for 3D Imaging, Wide Swath Radar Supporting ACE

Completed TRL 4 (started at 3, targeting 4)

Description

• Develop a novel shared aperture Ka/W band reflector/ reflectarray and Ka-band Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) feed technologies for ACE radar. • Demonstrate subscale reflector/reflectarray antenna with GSFC's Cloud Radar System (CRS) in a suborbital flight. • This antenna would provide advanced 3D cloud imaging capability for the ACE mission with enabling of wide swath electronic.

Details

Technology area	GN&C > Navigation Technologies > Navigation Sensors
Program	Instrument Incubator (IIP)
Lead organization	NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC
Start date	2011-12-01
End date	2015-04-17

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Paul E Racette — paul.e.racette@nasa.gov

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