TURNKEY RADOME MEASUREMENT SYSTEM WITH A SINGLE REFLECTOR COMPACT RANGE

摘要

In 1997 ORBIT/FR and Dornier Satellitensysteme (DSS), a corporate unit of Daimler-Benz Aerospace, agreed on strategic cooperation in the area of Compact Range products. This includes a licence agreement which allows ORBIT/FR to use the DSS developed reflector manufacturing technology utilizing steel castings to produce the highest precision reflectors machined for quiet zone sizes up to 8 × 12 ft. The standard product line includes both single reflector ORBIT/FR designs and the cross-polar compensated double reflector DSS design. Chelton (Electrostatics) Ltd. In Marlow, UK, is the first ORBIT/FR customer to receive a compact range using DSS technology. This radome measurement system uses a single reflector compact range with quiet zone of 4 × 6 ft. Other components include antenna, radome, and feed positioners, an HP 8530 based RF system, FR959 software and absorbers. Special software was developed to fully automate the entire radome acceptance test (up to 30 hours of acquisition and data evaluation) with a single command.