The Portable Antenna Measurement System, or PAMS, takes the form of a gondola suspended from the existing cranes within a satellite or antenna assembly hall. It has been built by Astrium GmbH, with support from ESA’s Advanced Research in Telecommunication Systems (ARTES) programme.
Here PAMS is shown performing near-field probing along a tilted and planar-oriented scan surface. Laser trackers show PAMS at work.