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Harris Corp. introduced an unfurlable space antenna designed to support emerging requirements for high-throughput Ka-band satellites. The new Harris Ka-band antenna greatly increases the gain and potential spot beams currently available to spacecraft manufacturers and service providers. The increased frequency reuse provided by the additional spot beams enables higher...

Lockheed Martin announced that the US Missile Defense Agency has awarded it a $43.3 M contract for concept definition and program planning for the Standard Missile-3 Block IIB (SM-3 IIB). The new missile, formerly known as the Next Generation Aegis Missile, will provide early intercept capability against intermediate- and...

Raytheon Co. was awarded $42 M for the initial concept development and program planning for the Standard Missile-3 Block IIB, which is the Missile Defense Agency’s next-generation Aegis missile. “Raytheon is the lowest-risk, lowest-cost, most-technically capable provider of missile defense solutions,” said Frank Wyatt, Vice President of Raytheon’s Air...

The Protection of European BoRders and Seas through the IntElligent Use of Surveillance (PERSEUS) project, led by Indra, has been instigated to provide protection of the European seas and borders with the smart use of technologies. The project, with a budget of €43.7 M and an execution period of...

The German V3DIM (standing for design for vertical 3D system integration in millimetre-wave applications) research project aims to lay the foundations for establishing the design requirements to develop innovative, highly integrated 3D System-in-Package (SiP) solutions for systems in the 40 to 100 GHz range. Five partners from industry, science...

CEA-Leti has joined the III-V Lab in a move to strengthen the industrial research capabilities of the R&D centre, which is Europe’s most advanced in the field of III-V semiconductors. CEA-Leti joins Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs and Thales, which established the III-V Lab, south of Paris, France, in 2004. Since...

Newtec has marked ten years in Asia by joining the Asia-Pacific Satellite Communications Council (APSCC) as a member. APSCC is a non-profit international organization representing all sectors of satellite and space related industries, including private companies, government ministries and agencies, and academic and research entities. Its overall objective is...

Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI), a world leader in high-performance semiconductors for signal processing applications and RF ICs (radio-frequency integrated circuits), today introduced the industry’s most highly integrated wideband passive mixers for communications applications. The ADL5811 single-channel and ADL5812 dual-channel mixers deliver unmatched linearity, low distortion and low noise combined...

The Naval Research Laboratory has been investigating the use of several different microwave and millimeter-wave systems in material processing. There are a number of instances in which such systems have unique advantages over conventional processing, or provide unique capabilities. In the past we have investigated the use of 2.45...

The following booth numbers are complete as of April 8, 2011. 26.5 GHz SMPM Attenuator Aeroflex/Inmet introduced a 26.5 GHz fixed attenuator that incorporates the SMPM connector. The self-aligning push-on connector is a miniature version of its SMP attenuator and provides reliable high performance, excellent RF characteristics and mates...