Research Article

Active Pointing Compensation of a HTS Multibeam Antenna

Table 3

Driving strategies of the MFCs.

Driving outputsDeformation directionsMFC1MFC2MFC3MFC4

ExtendingElongation along +1+1+1+1
Contraction along -1-1-1-1

BendingRotation about +1-100
Rotation about 00-1+1

TorsioningRotation about -1+100
Rotation about 00+1-1