GCA02 –HIGH GAIN L1 GNSS ACTIVE PATCH ANTENNA

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Overview

The EXA GCA02 is a two-stage, 33dB gain compact GNSS active patch antenna solution than works with your GNSS card and link it to GPS and GALILEO constellations in the L1 band, It is the ideal antenna for space-grade GNSS devices to achieve good sensitivity across all bands in a small form factor.

The active patch antenna, by means of a double resonance design, has a wide-band operation over GPS/GALILEO systems from 1575.42MHz L1 band. It includes a one-stage LNA and front-end SAW filter to reduce out of band noise; this antenna offers better protection from LEO radiation and greatly reduces the probability of damaging your GNSS receiver due to nearby transmissions.

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Overview

Name: GCA02 –HIGH GAIN L1 GNSS ACTIVE PATCH ANTENNA
Vendor: Ecuadorian Space Agency
Subsystem: ACDS Subsystem
Component Type: GNSS/GPS Receiver
Form Factor: CubeSat
Heritage: Yes
Average Cost: $2,700 USD
Fiscal Year: 2024
Average Lead Time: 0 to 1 months

Vendor Details

Name: Ecuadorian Space Agency
Website: http://exa.ec/index-en.html
Founded: 2007
Summary: EXA is an aerospace research and development institution that, among other things, designs and builds extreme hardware for CubeSats, with more than 7 years of record-setting flight heritage in extreme conditions. EXA’s technology is singular, original, simple, solid and dependable and allows CubeSat developers to use COTS components in order to break the limitations of budget and power typical of the cubesat form factor, the deployable hardware is based over EXA’s unique Active Artificial Muscle technology for a dependable, proven and anti-whiplash deploy of challenging mechanical elements. Flight heritage from 10+ missions backs their technology which is currently in use in European, Asian and Latina merican spacecrafts, and in the challenging U.S. market.