The first launch to place Iridium Next satellites into orbit was successfully completed yesterday at 1754 GMT from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying 10 communications satellites into low-Earth orbit, is the first of 7 flights that will loft 70 of the 860 kilogram satellites that will comprise the…
Juno
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,…
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…
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…
New Products for the MTG Program.
TRAK has secured orders for a the development of products for the MTG program….
O3b Constellation to Expand
Each o3b satellites hosts large numbers of TRAK K- and Ka-Band coaxial and waveguide isolators and circulators designed for a variety of iMUX, LNA and related payload applications….
Akatsuki Triumphs on Second Attempt
Akatsuki (“Dawn”), also known as the Venus Climate Orbiter (VCO) and Planet-C, is a Japanese (JAXA) space probe tasked to study the atmosphere of Venus….
WR28 Circulator
TRAK offers a 36 GHz Ka-band variant of its highly popular range of space qualified WR28 Isolators & Circulators. These are available in form factors that offer designers maximum mechanical flexibility….
Solar Probe Plus WR34 Circulator
TRAK has successfully delivered 40W WR34, Ka Band Circulators and matching remote terminations to Johns Hopkins, Applied Physics laboratories, (JHAPL) for the Solar Probe Plus mission. Solar Probe Plus is man’s first Mission to the Nearest Star, where it will enter the Sun’s atmosphere (or corona) and come closer to the Sun than any previous spacecraft where…