Design of 4 × 4 Low-Profile Antenna Array for CubeSat Applications.

This paper presents a low-profile microstrip antenna with high gain for fifth-generation (5G) CubeSat applications. The proposed design consists of 16 miniaturized patch antennas distributed in a uniform 4 × 4 topology with a feeding network on Rogers TMM10 substrate. The antenna array was simulated in CST Studio Suite software and fabricated for performance testing on the CubeSat structure.