POS
The industry standard for reflector shaping combined with array optimisation and other features for design and analysis of advanced antenna systems.
Your product for advanced payload technologies
POS enables the design of antennas for advanced payloads, such as reflectors for contoured beams, and is widely used for defining and optimising arrays and array-fed reflectors. It allows simultaneous optimisation of the shape reflectors in single-, dual-, and multiple-reflector antenna systems.
Why POS
Easily set up and optimise arrays.
Shape different reflector systems
Shape single-, dual-, and multiple-reflector systems
Excitation coefficient optimisation
Optimise array excitation coefficients
Layout optimisation
Optimise your array layout
HTS antenna optimisation
Optimisation goals for design of HTS antennas
CAD export
CAD export of shaped reflector surfaces
Access to large selection
Browse a large selection of optimisation goals and algorithms
Access to array classes
Follow array classes with full freedom of configuration for element positions and orientations
Excitation coefficients constraints
Apply constraints on excitation coefficients for representation of DBF performance
Key product highlights
- Seamless integration with other products in TICRA Tools
- Industry standard for design of contoured-beam reflectors
- Convenient and fast optimisation of direct-radiating arrays and array-fed reflectors
- Thoroughly tested by the space industry for decades
Core capabilities
Everything you need – in one environment.
Optimisation of shaped reflectors
Single, dual and multiple reflector systems can be shaped to achieve contoured beams. Beam shapes can be defined by the easy-to-use built-in templates in TICRA Tools or by importning station files from SATSOFT.
Direct radiating arrays
POS comes with efficient algorithms for analysis – and optimisation – of arrays and has several array models that allow the user to quickly define simple or complex arrays. Both dense and sparse arrays are supported, and the elements may be identical or unique. It is also possible to use array elements modelled in CHAMP 3D or ESTEAM in the array – and perform simultaneous optimisation of the elements and excitation coefficients.
Optimisation of array-fed reflectors
Array-fed reflectors can be optimised in terms of reflector shape, array geometry, and excitation coefficients. The combination of efficient algorithms for reflector analysis and array optimisation makes it feasible to optimise very complex antenna systems fast and efficiently.
Excitation coefficients can also be optimised for several reflector shapes simultaneously to get the best performance under multiple thermal conditions.
Surface constraints
Manufacturing-imposed constraints for surface curvature and constraints imposed by the payload envelope on surface displacement can be included in the optimisation. The same is true for constraints on feed positions and constraints on the dynamic range in beam-forming networks.
POS integrated in TICRA Tools
POS is integrated in TICRA Tools. This makes it easy for the user to combine the different products of TICRA in their daily work. It is, for example, possible to use horns modelled in CHAMP 3D as elements in arrays or as feeds for shaped reflectors – or perform scattering analysis with the optimised antenna designs in ESTEAM.
Downloads
Technical documentation and resources for POS. Open files download directly; the rest are available to customers with a portal account.
Some FAQs
Is it possible to use more than one type of element in an array?
Yes, both the full-wave and analytical arrays support mixing any number of different array elements.
Is it possible to use more than one type of element in an array?
Yes, both the full-wave and analytical arrays support mixing any number of different array elements.
Is it possible to use more than one type of element in an array?
Yes, both the full-wave and analytical arrays support mixing any number of different array elements.
Is it possible to use more than one type of element in an array?
Yes, both the full-wave and analytical arrays support mixing any number of different array elements.
Is it possible to use more than one type of element in an array?
Yes, both the full-wave and analytical arrays support mixing any number of different array elements.
Is it possible to use more than one type of element in an array?
Yes, both the full-wave and analytical arrays support mixing any number of different array elements.
Is it possible to use more than one type of element in an array?
Yes, both the full-wave and analytical arrays support mixing any number of different array elements.
Contact us
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