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NASA has a new spacecraft operating on the surface of Mars. The Phoenix Mars Lander, built by Lockheed Martin, navigated a dramatic descent through the planet’s atmosphere, positioning Phoenix to dig down and touch the planet’s subsurface ice. Onboard commands fired six separation nuts and jettisoned the cruise stage...

Raytheon Co. has been awarded a US Air Force contract to continue evolving a system for sharing of near real-time, actionable intelligence information among warfighters. Known as the Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS) Integration Backbone (DIB), the next generation DIB—DIB1.3—will address standard compliance, baseline convergence, enterprise interoperability and unique...

Harris Corp., an international communications and information technology company, has been awarded a potential five-year, $85 M indefinite delivery/ indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract from the US Navy for multiband satellite communications terminals that will provide advanced communications for aircraft carriers and other large deck ships. Under the IDIQ contract,...

The US Air Force announced that a team led by Lockheed Martin has won the competition to build the next generation Global Positioning System (GPS) Space System Program, known as GPS III. This program will improve position, navigation and timing services for the warfighter and civilian users worldwide, and...

Headlines for Friday, June 27 Cree Announces Sample Release of 90 W GaN HEMT Microphase Reveals New Designs for MoCA Applications Toshiba Expands GaN HEMT Product Family Peregrine Extends RF Performance to Test Equipment Applications Headlines for Thursday, June 26 LadyBug Announces Second Contract from US Government Agilent's MXG...

Bliley Technologies Inc. , a supplier and provider of crystal-based frequency control solutions for over 75 years, has announced its V-Series voltage-controlled crystal oscillators (VCXO). Bliley’s V-Series VCXO’s equip design engineers with a range of options for the timing and synchronization support of telecommunication and digital data systems. Well...

With NMDG extension kits for vector network analysers the user can characterise the nonlinear behaviour of HF components in time and frequency domain under realistic conditions, even in a non-50 Ohm environment. The NMDG NM300 extension kit supports the ZVA and ZVT Network Analysers from Rohde & Schwarz. This...

Building on its position as the leading producer of gallium nitride-on-silicon (GaN-on-Si) RF devices, Nitronex has launched an initiative to educate the industry regarding the use of this unique technology. Nitronex’s new GaN Essentials™ education center provides visitors with a better understanding of how to evaluate performance of, and...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced new N5161A and N5162A MXG ATE analog and vector RF signal generators for the cost-sensitive automated test equipment (ATE) environment. In addition to these new models, Agilent announced a series of enhancements to the MXG RF signal generators designed to deliver up to +23 dBm...

LadyBug Technologies LLC announced this month that the company has received a second sales order from the US Government for its PowerSensor+™ line of miniaturized USB power meter-sensors. This latest order included LadyBug models LB479A and LB579A. The LB479A is a miniaturized 10 MHz to 10 GHz USB power...