{"id":243126,"date":"2016-10-04T05:46:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T09:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=33edda309386b9a672967a44a52a4cde"},"modified":"2016-10-04T05:46:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T09:46:00","slug":"marco-sabbadini-smart-skin-for-flat-antennas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=243126","title":{"rendered":"Marco Sabbadini: Smart skin for flat antennas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2016\/09\/marco_sabbadini_smart_skin_for_flat_antennas\/16142240-1-eng-GB\/Marco_Sabbadini_Smart_skin_for_flat_antennas_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nA revolutionary new type of flat antenna is on its way to space, explains Marco Sabbadini, Senior Antenna engineer in ESA\u2019s Antenna and Sub-Millimetre Waves Section. Normally antennas have a curved reflector dish \u2013 which works rather like the rounded surrounding of a flashlight to focus its beam towards its target \u2013 as well as a radio signal feed horn. The new \u2018modulated metasurface\u2019 antenna influences electromagnetic radiation not through the reflector\u2019s curvature but by careful tailoring of the surface itself.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/Talking_technology\/Smart_skin_for_flat_antennas\">To learn more, read his interview here <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2016\/09\/marco_sabbadini_smart_skin_for_flat_antennas\/16142240-1-eng-GB\/Marco_Sabbadini_Smart_skin_for_flat_antennas_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nA revolutionary new type of flat antenna is on its way to space, explains Marco Sabbadini, Senior Antenna engineer in ESA&rsquo;s Antenna and Sub-Millimetre Waves Section. Normally antennas have a curved reflector dish &ndash; which works rather like the rounded surrounding of a flashlight to focus its beam towards its target &ndash; as well as a radio signal feed horn. The new &lsquo;modulated metasurface&rsquo; antenna influences electromagnetic radiation not through the reflector&rsquo;s curvature but by careful tailoring of the surface itself.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/Talking_technology\/Smart_skin_for_flat_antennas\">To learn more, read his interview here <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243127,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243126\/revisions\/243127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}