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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 1997
Filed:
Jun. 16, 1995
George T Hayes, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Louis B Brydon, San Carlos, CA (US);
Space Systems/Loral, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Antenna assemblies and stowage and restraint system thereof, comprising at least one dual band reflector having overall L-band-reflective properties and having a central stiffened Ku-band-reflective area having high reflector surface accuracy surrounded by a flexible annular area having L-band reflective properties. The reflector also has a support hingedly attached to a spacecraft body for deployment between a stowage position in which it is pivoted and restrained up against a face of the spacecraft body and the flexible annular reflector areas partially flexed therearound, and a deployed position in which it is enabled to relax and return to extended, parabolic condition.