The invention discloses a double circularly polarized antenna unit and a large-space low-grating lobe panel array antenna. The array antenna comprises the double circularly polarized antenna unit and a feed network, wherein the double circularly polarized antenna unit comprises a dual-polarized radiation cavity, a circularly polarized diaphragm phase shifter, a grating lobe inhibition diaphragm, an antenna radiation opening, a left-handed circular polarization feed port and a right-handed circular polarization feed port, and is connected with the left-handed circular polarization feed port and the right-handed circular polarization feed port through the feed network of a dual-layer microstrip or a double-layer waveguide respectively to form a sum beam signal. A cross metal diaphragm is loaded at the antenna radiation opening, so that a good grating lobe inhibition effect can be achieved. The large-space low-grating lobe panel array antenna can be applied to antennas, which are relatively high in gain, common in receiving and transmitting and high in directionality, of a radar, communication, navigation and the like, is a low-grating lobe double circularly polarized array antenna with high efficiency under a large element space, can be used as a single-receiving, single-transmitting or receiving and transmitting array, and can also be applied to a circularly polarized phased-array antenna for electron beam scanning through expansion.