CONSTRUCTION OF INTEGRATED ONBOARD ANTENNAS
During the development of an antenna system for spacecraft of any type and application, the developers face the challenge of installing onboard antennas on the satellite surface. To do this, it is required to take into account the influence of the satellite body and onboard devices located near the antennas. The article deals with the approaches that are currently used to resolve this problem. The advantages and disadvantages of existing methods of locating spacecraft onboard antennas are shown.This article demonstrates the possibility of constructing integrated onboard antennas for spacecraft in order to resolve the studied problem. An actual example of constructing an integrated antenna for the onboard radio complex of the data acqusition and transmission system and onboard equipment of COSPAS-SARSAT is considered. The proposed integrated antenna can be used on Meteor-M satellites.