TRAK is pleased to announce that it has been awarded contracts and purchase orders to supply Ku-Band waveguide components including couplers, loads and transitions and Coaxial & MICPuck isolators the for the BSAT4a program. The satellite, BSAT-4a, will have 24-Ku-band transponders and will expand the availability of advanced television services such as HD and 4K/8K UHDTV and will be…
Ka-Band Payload, NBN 1a Launches
The high capacity Ka-Band NBN 1a was successfully launched today. Aboard were large numbers of TRAK WR28 low loss Isolators. The satellite is the first of the two NBN satellites designed to provide broadband access to rural Australia was launched earlier today. Parameter Value Measure Operating Frequency 27.0 to 31.0 GHz Insertion Loss 0.15 dB max….
Cassini-Huygens
It’s been around 18 years since the Cassini-Huygens deep space probe was launched and 20 years since TRAK completed deliveries of a suite of products to customers in the EU and the USA. In the interim Cassini has travelled around 3.5B Km and is currently operating in orbit around Saturn. After an extraordinarily successful primary…
Congratulations Eutelsat 8W B
Eutelsat 8Wb was successfully launched aboard an Arianespace on August 20th. Design and manufactured for Eutelsat by Thales Alenia Space the payload will be deployed to provide HDTV services to a region spanning Morocco to the Arabian Gulf. The 5.8 tonne satellite is equipped with 40 operational Ku-band transponders and 10 C-Band transponders and is…
On this day, 14th August…
On this day, 14th August, in 1996 ITALSAT F2 was successfully comissioned in orbit and is remembered by TRAK as the first payload to include flight qualified ferrite Isolators designed and supplied by TRAK in Dundee. The second spacecraft in the series, F2 was, like F1, designed to provide communications capacity over Italy and allowed the…
On this day, 4th August…
On this day, 4th August, TRAK products were launched aboard a number of Commercial geostationary payloads. 2004, Amazonas built by EADS Astrium for Hispasat (Ku-Band Coaxial Isolators, Circulators and WR75 Iso-adapters) 2006, HotBird8 also built by EADS Astrium for Eutelsat (Ku-Band Coaxial Isolators, Circulators and WR75 Iso-adapters) 2010, Nilesat 201 built by Thales Alenia built for…
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…
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…