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Update on the Q-par Angus / EADS Astrium Collaboration for the PARIS Project
Q-par Angus Ltd has been working with EADS Astrium to produce an Airborne Demonstrator, L-band dual-band steerable phased array, for the PARIS concept which will de-risk the development for a potential space borne instrument.
PARIS Project Photos
- Inside view of Aircraft
The Concept demonstrator had its first flight over the Irish sea in January of this year. The resulting data is very promising and has been hailed as a successful first flight. EADS Astrium have thanked all contributors to the project.
The sea plays an extremely important rôle in the Earth's climate, not least because it occupies more than 70 % of its surface. Consequently there is a great need for detailed information on the ocean conditions, for example the currents and wave height, to aid the work of climate scientists particularly in the field of climate change. This information can be extracted by altimetry or height measurements of the sea level.
- View from under the aircraft
This antenna combined complexity of both design and manufacture. The antenna patches were double tuned and provided 4 steerable beams up to 50 degrees off boresight.
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