EurekAlert  February 21, 2023 Although small satellites have a lot of potential due to their smaller size, they have lesser radiation shield and the deployable membrane attached to the main body for a large phased-array transceiver causing non-uniform radiation degradation across the transceiver. This affects the gain variation and performance of the satellite. To mitigate radiation degradation researchers in Japan created a phased-array transceiver with on-chip distributed radiation sensors which can detect the gain variation between the chips of the antenna. This was combined with current-sharing techniques to mitigate the gain variation and thus reduce the impact of non-uniform ionizing […]