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Table 1 Cable mesh reflector specifications

From: Two-step Structural Design of Mesh Antennas for High Beam Pointing Accuracy

Items

Value or character

Reflector type

Single offset parabola

Aperture diameter d/m

9.23

Focal length f/m

6

Offset height h/m

5

Minimum distance between the front and rear cable nets h e/m

0.2

Young’s modulus of cables E/GPa

20

Cable cross-sectional area A/mm2

3.14

Mesh tension N m /(N m−1)

2.0

Frequency/GHz

2

Cosine-Q feed Q x Q y

8.338

Polarization

RCP

Feed tilt angle ψ 0/(°)

41.64

Feed position

On focus