Recent achievements and future trends for multiple beam telecommunication antennas

This paper describes a summary of THALES ALENIA SPACE France background in the field of space multibeam antennas for telecommunication applications. It starts with CIEL 2 Spacebus antenna subsystem operational in orbit since 2008. Then the main trends and antenna developments for Ka-band mission are addressed. A focus is made on KISS/ARTES3 EQM antenna that consists of a 2m full carbon reflector and very compact Tx/Rx dual polarization feeds. Finally recent achievements on YAHSAT 1B, ATHENA FIDUS and ARABSAT 5C are presented.