This most recent device supplied by TRAK is for a Space Qualified UHF FGU application offers greater than ~30 dB isolation and better than 25dB return loss with an insertion loss of 0.25dB over a 100C operating temperature range and 50MHz operating bandwidth. Frequency Generation Unit “FGU” applications require high isolation, high return loss isolators. These narrow…
K-Band IMUX Isolators
TRAK supplies a large number of K-Band IMUX isolators and circulators for space applications. Many of them are featured here. The image above illustrates the TRAK WR51 low loss waveguide circulator. This is used to form the iMUX manifold structure assembly along with the Companies’ solid coaxial K-band isolators used to buffer and isolate each…
Environmental Impact Reduced
TRAK has recorded a fifth consecutive year-on-year improvement in its environmental metrics. The environmental metrics track the site’s performance in terms of water, energy consumption and waste generation. Compared with 2010 these have shown substantial improvements compared with Fiscal Year 2015. Compared with the prior year total: Energy consumption has been reduced by 5.1% Electricity…
L-Band SSPA Circulator
TRAK presents its latest high power, space qualified, L-Band SSPA Circulator designed for Solid State Power Amplifiers (SSPA) use. The device operates at an equivalent 120W CW with electrical specifications dependent on operating bandwidth. The device illustrated below has a tabbed input port and solid TNC female output port and is configured supplied as a…
Skynet 5 Still Making the News
Almost exactly 10 years after the final FMs were supplied to EADS Astrium UK the SKYNET series of Military communications satellites continues to make the news as flight 5A transitions to its new slot 94.8GHz east over the Asia Pacific, where it is expected to begin operations later in 2015. The move will provide Airbus’s…
GEO-KOMPSAT-2 High Power Isolators
TRAK is pleased to announce it has been awarded a contract to design, qualify and deliver space qualified high power WR34 isolators for the GEO-KOMPSAT-2 (GK2, Geostationary Earth Orbit Korea Multi-Purpose Satellite) payloads. GK2 is a South Korean government programme to develop and operate two geostationary civilian satellites, GK2A and GK2B, for missions that include…
BepiColombo Progresses
TRAK completed qualification and delivery of the final batch of FMs for the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission some months ago. Once functional testing has been completed in Thales Alenia Space’s Turin facility the payload will be then be shipped to ESA’s European Space Research and Technology center in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, to start environmental tests. TRAK Microwave…
50W CW, WR28 Junction Circulator
TRAK has delivered a low loss WR28 Junction Circulator (TRAK part number 22CD3101) designed to operate at 50W CW between 33-35 GHz. The first batch of circulators were delivered to a US customer last month. TRAK received positive feedback regarding the performance at high power when integrated into the system. This is the latest in the…
Diamond RF© Enabling Superior Performance
TRAK has supplied it’s 4000th flight model isolator termination using EMC Technology’s Diamond RF© chip 50Ohm low capacitance terminations. Over the past 12 months Diamond terminations have been supplied in space qualified isolators handling 100W at C-Band to 10W at X-Band – the latter having been supplied in large quantities for a space based earth observation system….
MSG 4 Successfully Launches
METEOSAT Second Generation (MSG) F4 was successfully launched earlier today from Korou aboard an Ariane 5 launcher. TRAK has supplied a number of customers with components for this fourth MSG payload including coaxial and stripline components in equipment including transponders, telemetry receivers and data transmission. Two generations of active Meteosat satellites, Meteosat First Generation and Meteosat Second…