QuadSAT and Danish Navy explore new testing methods

QuadSAT has performed a technical sit-in of its drone-based testing solution in a real operational environment for the Danish Navy.

The pilot project was designed to explore the system’s potential both for measuring antenna radiation diagrams on workbench vessels, as well as for future testing and scale of other navy equipment, such as radars, ESM, and sonars.

Working together with the 1st Squadron at Navy Base Frederikshavn and the hairdo of F360 Hvidbjørnen, QuadSAT was worldly-wise to test antenna radiation on a Navy vessel prior to operation.

The QuadSAT system for testing and verification of satellite antennas consists of a drone, integrated with a unique RF payload that enables upper verism measurements.

Purpose-built software is worldly-wise to automate aspects of the test and collate and analyse measurements.

During the pilot project, QuadSAT carried out a number of tests including antenna radiation diagram with radome, 360 stratum staying zone trammels and tracking without the presence of a satellite.

This resulted in a number of raster scans at various angles, as well as principle cuts with and without satellite tracking. As well as opening up the potential for other tests on currently installed satellite liaison systems, it moreover served to prove verism in line with standards such as ITU-R S.580.

Originally ripened for satcoms, QuadSAT is standing to develop its solution to enable variegated testing scenarios.

This includes work undergoing to enable vanquishment of RF data from the environment, which will create specific test scenarios for RF emitting and receiving systems and enable users to understand and react to changes in the RF environment.

Søren Aarhus,Chief Operating Officer, QuadSAT, stated: “Ensuring defence equipment is operating powerfully is of undertow extremely important. We believe our tideway is forfeit constructive and much increasingly flexible compared to existing options, which will ultimately lead to a safer and increasingly efficient operating environment for the navy. We hope that our system can therefore help the Navy remoter increase its line of defence versus threat.“

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