{"id":5319,"date":"2023-06-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.first.iir.isct.ac.jp\/detail_1486\/"},"modified":"2023-06-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T15:00:00","slug":"detail_1486","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.first.iir.isct.ac.jp\/en\/detail_1486\/","title":{"rendered":"Towards the New-Space Era with Foldable Phased-Array Transmitters for Small Satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fieldblock\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb20\"><span class=\"fwB\">New design for a foldable phased-array transmitter can help make satellites lightweight, smaller, and cost-efficient to launch, report scientists at Tokyo Tech. The transmitter is made of stacked layers of liquid crystal polymer and incorporates flexible creases, which provide flexibility and deployability. The new design could make research and implementation of space technologies more accessible to private companies and startups.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"fieldblock\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"taC clearfix\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.titech.ac.jp\/english\/news\/img\/news-32756-p1a.jpg\" alt=\"Figure 1 A foldable phased-array transmitter for LEO satellites By varying the number of liquid crystal polymer layers, the proposed design incorporates foldable creases, contributing to a smaller form factor and lower weight.\"><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2>Contact<\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong><span><span>Assoc. Prof. Atsushi Shirane<\/span><\/span><\/strong>\uff08Quantum Nanoelectronics Research Center\uff09<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/shirane-lab.ee.e.titech.ac.jp\/index-e.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/shirane-lab.ee.e.titech.ac.jp\/index-e.html<\/a><br \/><a href=\"shirane@ee.e.titech.ac.jp?subject=\u3010\u554f\u5408\u305b\u3011\u30d7\u30ec\u30b9\u30ea\u30ea\u30fc\u30b9\u306b\u3064\u3044\u3066&amp;body=\u3054\u8a18\u5165\u304f\u3060\u3055\u3044\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"https:\/\/www.first.iir.isct.ac.jp\/english\/news\/uploads\/Contact.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.first.iir.isct.ac.jp\/english\/news\/uploads\/Contact.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"30\" class=\"mt-image-none\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"background: #f3f3f2; padding: 10px; border: none; border-radius: 10px; -moz-border-radius: 10px; -webkit-border-radius: 10px;\"><strong>Links<\/strong><br \/>\u25b6<a href=\"https:\/\/www.titech.ac.jp\/english\/news\/2023\/066962\">Tokyo Institute of Technology<\/a><br \/>\u25b6<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iir.titech.ac.jp\/en\/news\/news-3612\/\">Institute of Innovative Research\uff08IIR\uff09<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New design for a foldable phased-array transmitter can help make satellites lightweight, smaller, and cost-efficient to launch, report scientists at Tokyo Tech. The transmitter is made of stacked layers of liquid crystal polymer and incorporates flexible creases, which provide flexibility and deployability. The new design could make research and implementation of space technologies more accessible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/www.first.iir.isct.ac.jp\/detail_1486\/","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release","en-US"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.first.iir.isct.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.first.iir.isct.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.first.iir.isct.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.first.iir.isct.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.first.iir.isct.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.first.iir.isct.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.first.iir.isct.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.first.iir.isct.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.first.iir.isct.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}