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…
New product: High Power SMA to WR75 Transition
TRAK announces a new high power SMA to WR75 transition designed for space applications. The SMA WR75 transition is designed to handle 26W CW and to operate over both the satellite transmit and receive band from 10.7 to 14.8 GHz. With a mass of only 40g the device features an an RF sealed connector whose centre contact is…
New Contracts for X-Band Microstrip Ferrite Isolators and Circulators
TRAK has been awarded a large contract for the supply many thousands of X-Band microstrip circulators for an unnamed EU based program….
Coaxial and Waveguide Ferrite Isolators for TV19
TRAK is pleased to announce new contracts for the supply of Ku & Ka-band coaxial and waveguide isolators for Telesat Vantage 19. The new contracts mark a milestone for TRAK as the first of these product types to be ordered by this particular customer. TeleSat Vantage 19 (TV19) will be the second of a new…
Ku-Band Products for INTELSAT38
The Company is pleased to announce that it has been selected to supply Ku-Band products for INTELSAT38, comprising a range of waveguide components including; couplers, transitions and terminations and coaxial isolators….
WR75 Ku-Band 3dB Hybrid Coupler
TRAK offers a WR75 Ku-Band 3dB hybrid coupler for space applications. Once qualified the 3dB hybrid will be supplied for flight payload integration to an unnamed customer….
BADR 7/Arabsat 6a launches
TRAK congratulates Airbus as prime & Thales Alenia Space as payload contractor on the successful launch of Arabsat 6a, now re-named BADR 7, on November 10th, 2015. TRAK provided 4 separate customers with a large number and variety of S, Ku, K and Ka-band ferrite isolators and circulators in a range of microstrip, coaxial and…
BSAT4a
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…
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…