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Flight test shows small antenna can do big things

July 31st, 2009
Electronic Systems Center and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory personnel demonstrated the powerful capabilities of a small antenna during a flight test conducted earlier this summer here.

The 7-inch-high-by-14-inch-wide antenna performed so well that only one flight test was needed to determine its effectiveness, said Capt. Jeff Zhu, the Air Force program manager.

This first iteration of the Advanced Multiband Communications Antenna System was designed to enable crewmembers aboard various Air Force platforms to receive satellite transmissions from the Military Strategic and Tactical Relay satellite, known as MILSTAR, in the extremely high frequency mode, or EHF.
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