A reflectarray antenna for use in interferometeric ocean height measurement

A deployable reflectarray antenna is developed for use in a Ku-band dual polarization cross-track interferometer instrument. It is found that the reflectarray antenna provides unique, mission enabling advantages for a large dual polarized antenna in terms of stowage, dual beam aperture efficiency and cost. This paper presents experimental results to demonstrate that reflectarray antenna technology is sufficiently mature for flight applications