I know on Luna-1 you had a "V" shaped turnstile for generating circularly polarized waves. You don't have to spin the antenna, turnstiles are just two dipoles, driven 90 degrees out of phas ...
I'm curious how the Soviets designed the antennas on Sputnik-1. The 58 cm sphere had four antennas, two were 2.4 meters long and two were 2.9 meters long. They were angled at 35 degrees from the lon ...