Happy Independence Day America Coincidence? On July 4th 2016 and after a five year journey the NASA Juno probe will enter into orbit around Jupiter. The mission’s principal goal is to understand the origin and evolution of Jupiter, teasing out the mysteries that lie beneath the dense Jovian cloud cover, secrets that may help unravel…
Exomars Launches
Congratulations to everyone involved with the recent successful launch of first mission of the ExoMars programme. Scheduled to arrive at Mars in 2016, this initial phase consists of the Trace Gas Orbiter plus an entry, descent and landing demonstrator module, known as Schiaparelli. The objective of this mission are the search for trace atmospheric gases,…
MODE-S Circulator Milestone
TRAK has delivered its 2,000th high power MODE-S Circulator since the design was first qualified almost 15 years ago. The high power circulators operate over the 1020 to 1100 MHz band and are qualified to handle 5kW peak under MODE-S pulse conditions into a full short or open circuit of any phase. The 2,000 MODE-S Circulator…
Congratulations SENTINEL-3a
SENTINEL-3a spacecraft has been successfully launched into orbit with high power waveguide, coaxial isolators and other passive components produced by TRAK Microwave in Dundee. The SENTINEL-3a payload, launched from the Plestsk Cosmodrome today at ~18:00 UTC, contains several equipments containing TRAK products supplied almost 3 years ago to 4 customers in the EU and the is 3rd COPERNICUS mission to have been launched…
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…