Filipino cited for antenna design
A SCHOLAR of the Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) has been recognized for his doctoral research on the creation of a novel antenna design that would ensure reliable communication between a nanosatellite and an earth station.
Raynell Inojosa, a scholar of PhilSA under its Advanced Degrees for Accelerating Space Research and Development and Applications (Ad Astra) program, was recognized during the Transdisciplinary-Oriented Workshop for Emerging Researchers (Tower) which was conducted by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in Tokyo, Japan last November 26.
IEEE Tower is an annual conference of university students and young researchers in Japan and is supported by the IEEE Young Professionals Affinity Group from Kansai, Sendai and Tokyo.
Inojosa’s doctoral research, titled “Electrodynamic Analysis of a Geometry-Oriented Antenna for Low-Earth Orbit CubeSat,” was selected as one of the outstanding presentations during the conference.
His research was part of the Ad Astra scholarship grant, where it supported Inojosa’s short-term research engagement at the Laboratory of Lean Satellite Enterprises and In-Orbit Experiment (LaSeine) and the Center for Nanosatellite Testing (CeNT) at Kyushu Institute of Technology (KyuTech) in Japan.
“For my research, I did computer modeling and optimization of a 920 MHz patch antenna for low-earth orbit CubeSat integration and investigated the actual performance of a fabricated prototype when used as a CubeSat payload,” Inojosa said in a statement.
Inojosa said that his research aims to come up with an innovative patch antenna design that would ensure efficient and successful communication links between a nanosatellite and the ground station terminal.
The proposed antenna is expected to meet the satellite data rate requirement based on the CubeSat mission in low-Earth orbit, such as gathering ground data for disaster analytics, vegetation detection and environmental monitoring that would be “beneficial for the community.”