Abstract: The design and operation of a compact antenna array offering circularly polarized (CP) radiation for picosat and other small satellites for communication applications is presented. The ...

Using characteristic mode analysis (CMA), two orthogonal modes ... The size of a single antenna element and the 1 $\times $ 2 array-unit (AU) are 20 $\times $ 21.5 mm2 and 40 $\times $ 21.5 mm2, ...