Microstrip Patch Antennas

Antenna Development Corporation

(AntDevCo)

Welcome to the Antenna Development Corporation Website.

We keep this a very simple site so don’t get your hopes up for bells and whistles. Use your browser’s “find” function and look at the PDF files for more details.

News:

· AntDevCo initiates shock testing capability: May 2009. (See item 16 below)

· Registered Trademark: (see the mark in item 17 below)

· AntDevCo attains ISO 9001:2000 Certification: 8/30/08. (See items 1 & 2 below)

· Add Antenna Papers: 7/20/08. (See items 3 & 4 below)

· UHF patch antenna for spacecraft: A UHF version of our highly reliable patch antennas is now offered by AntDevCo. (Item 15 below)

· Antennas developed by Blevins and Greenling fly on the ST-5 spacecraft (March 22, 2006). See the story at http://spaceflightnow.com/pegasus/st5/status.html

· Recent AntDevCo Antenna Launch – a TDRSS antenna on the Cosmic spacecraft http://www.cosmic.ucar.edu/about.html

See http://www.spacearchive.info/vafbsked.htm for the launch schedule and status.

Introduction:

AntDevCo’s charter is to develop and manufacture high technology antennas for missiles, rockets, re-entry vehicles, and spacecraft. We concentrate on custom solutions for broad beamwidth, low and medium gain antennas for the space and near-space environment.

Our company has embraced the ISO philosophy from its inception. Quality is our primary concern and we strive to make continuous improvements in all of our processes and products.

Facilities:

AntDevCo operates out of an 1100 square foot office/high bay facility in Las Cruces, New Mexico. We are close to the New Mexico State University with its Physical Science Laboratory antenna test facilities, machine shops, and highly qualified professors and scientists. There are also several local machine shops in the Las Cruces area and the El Paso international airport is only 50 minutes away.

History:

AntDevCo is New Mexico Sub-Chapter S Corporation formed in June of 2005 by Dr. Bruce Blevins and Thomas Greenling. We are a spin-off from the Physical Science Laboratory at New Mexico State University. As such, AntDevCo is able to use the designs for spacecraft antennas developed by PSL. The two principals of AntDevCo have an aggregate experience of more that 40 years of antenna design, test, and manufacture. Dr. Blevins has designed antennas for experimental astrophysics receivers, radars, and many small spacecraft and missiles. Thomas Greenling began his antenna career with the repair of submarine antennas while in the Navy and has also designed numerous antennas for spacecraft and missiles. Dr. Blevins owned and operated his own company, (Tesota Products Antenna Division - TPAD) in the 90’s and started his production of antennas for small spacecraft at that time. Blevins and Greenling then worked together at the Electromagnetics group at PSL from 1997 through 2005 on many antenna programs for manufacturing and test. We have personally been the leaders in the development of the low gain antennas for the TERRIERS, HETE, THEMIS, MIGHTYSAT, ALEXIS (Blackbeard), GENESIS, STARDUST, ROADRUNNER, ST-5, and HESSI spacecrafts – to name a few. We designed the antenna for the General Dynamics Viceroy spacecraft GPS receiver – flown on many spacecraft. This PSL experience, our full commitment to continuing the quality practices developed at PSL, and the detailed design information available to us from PSL establishes AntDevCo flight heritage for our spacecraft products.

We have also been the design engineers for a number of sounding rocket, ballistic missiles, and ballistic missile target vehicle antennas as subcontractors for BMD and other programs. For example, Dr. Blevins led the PSL effort to develop and manufacture antennas for the MOD-7 wafer used in the sustaining flight tests of the Minuteman III missile. We have also designed and developed a number of antenna hats (couplers) for spacecraft and missile antenna systems.

Come to us for very competent and rapid responses to your requirements.

More In-Depth Documents:

Please contact us for more in-depth information. Note that certain ITAR restrictions limit our ability to supply certain details to foreign or other entities or individuals.

ISO 9001:2000 Certification

1. Press Release: ADC-0808271504 - ISO 9001-2000 Press Release.pdf

2. Certificate: ISO Cert from Platinum 2008.pdf

Small Spacecraft Antennas

3. ADC-0807201342 - R0 Small Satellite Antenna Paper.htm

Small Spacecraft Antenna Selection Tutorial:

4. ADC-0807201305 - R0 Small Spacecraft Antenna Selection Tutorial.pdf

Detailed heritage of our antennas

5. ADC-0601291440 Spacecraft Antenna & Hats Catalog.pdf

AntDevCo Corporate Data Sheet:

6. ADC-0512012131 Corporate data sheet.pdf

How to specify and order Patch Antennas