TRAK offer new variants of its highly popular range of WR28 space qualified Isolators & Circulators. These are available in form factors that offer iMUX designers maximum mechanical flexibility….
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….
Lisa Pathfinder Satellite Launched
After a 20 year journey working its way from concept to approval and battling budget concerns and technical challenges Europe has launched the 400M€ Lisa Pathfinder satellite. TRAK provided a number of products for the transponder, beacon, TT&C, datalink and ancillary equipment aboard the bus and payload including waveguide and coaxial ferrite isolators and circulators…
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…
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…
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…