ESA Open Invitation to Tender AO9552
Open Date: 21/08/2018
Closing Date: 15/10/2018 13:00:00

Status: ISSUED
Reference Nr.: 18.1ET.23
Prog. Ref.: Technology Developme
Budget Ref.: E/0901-01 – Technology Developme
Special Prov.: BE+DK+FR+DE+IT+NL+ES+SE+CH+GB+IE+AT+NO+FI+PT+GR+LU+CZ+RO+PL+EE+HU
Tender Type: C
Price Range: > 500 KEURO
Products: Satellites & Probes / Payloads / Instruments / RF and microwave Instruments / Imaging Radars
Techology Domains: RF Systems, Payloads and Technologies / RF Payloads / EO Instruments
Establishment: ESTEC
Directorate: Directorate of Tech, Eng. & Quality
Department: Electrical Engineering Department
Division: Radio Frequency Systems & Payloads Offic
Contract Officer: Erkelens-Sickinger, Franziska
Industrial Policy Measure: N/A – Not apply
Last Update Date: 21/08/2018
Update Reason: Tender issue

Multibeam scanning during receive at Ka-band using high gain pencil beams can reduce the transmit powerrequirements by factors andallows transmit power levels well within today technologies even with significant swathand/or resolution improvement.Within the activity SCORE (SCan-On-REceive) based on multibeam antennas shall be studied and developed and afeasibility demonstrator shall be build suitable for reflector based Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). The demonstratorshall consist of:- Dual polarisation multi-feed array with Low Noise Amplifier- Fast switching matrix for feed selection- Multi-channel down-converter with Analog Digital Converter- Digital beam formerThe work included in this activity consists in:- Preliminary design of the frontend with trade-off analysis.- Detailed design of critical elements- Hardware build, performance test and Score demonstration.- Evaluation

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