NASA Tests Antenna for SkyFall Mission
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NASA Tests Antenna for SkyFall Mission

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NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California recently conducted antenna testing for the upcoming SkyFall mission. The tests, performed in an electromagnetic interference testing chamber, are crucial to ensuring the radar system functions correctly.

The antenna testing involved NASA’s SkyFall ground-penetrating radar engineer Maya Román connecting a coaxial cable to a test antenna within the Environmental Test Lab’s electromagnetic interference testing chamber at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The location of these tests is in Southern California.

According to NASA, the antenna was intentionally pointed upwards during the measurement process “to minimize reflections and interferences with the antenna pattern. These tests are a key step in preparing for the mission's objectives, which remain unspecified in this report.

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