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The Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) is the major instrument on the European ENVISAT spacecraft which will be launched on Ariane 5. The purpose of the ASAR instrument is to help the scientific community and governments to better understand and monitor the global environment.
The ASAR antenna will deploy in orbit from its stowed envelope to form an accurately aligned, 10 m x 1.5 m planar array of radiating and receiving apertures. The antenna transmit and receive electronics have a total mass of 330 kg and are distributed over the antenna area. The structure and mechanisms of the flight antenna are now integrated and almost fully tested, ready for the attachment of the antenna electronics. This paper is concerned with the mechanical design of the antenna and, in particular, the interrelationship between its design, integration and testing.
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Wright, D. (2000). Design, Integration and Testing of an Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar. In: Pellegrino, S., Guest, S.D. (eds) IUTAM-IASS Symposium on Deployable Structures: Theory and Applications. Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 80. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9514-8_48
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