[AMSAT-UK] Satellite has deployable VHF crossed Yagi antenna
 

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Satellite has deployable VHF crossed Yagi antenna

Posted: 04 Aug 2017 08:49 AM PDT
https://amsat-uk.org/2017/08/04/sate...able-vhf-yagi/

NORsat-2 in space deploying its antenna. (Credit: Space Norway AS)

Radio amateurs Sean Hum VA3SHV and Jeff Nicholls VA3NGJ worked on the
design for a deployable VHF crossed Yagi antenna on the recently launched
NORsat-2.

The very high frequency (VHF) antenna was designed to unfold from the
CubeSat after receiving a command from the Norwegian Space Center to deploy
once in orbit. “This antenna is a completely new type of deployable antenna
— it unfolds to be more than three times as large as the satellite that
took it into orbit,” says Hum. “This is the first time that a deployable
antenna of this type has been contemplated and successfully used as a main
mission antenna for a CubeSat.”

On July 20, cameras on board the CubeSat confirmed the successful
deployment of the antenna.

Read the full story at
http://news.engineering.utoronto.ca/...aunched-orbit/