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Covering topics from the historical to the development of technology for the future the first meeting of the ARMMS RF & Microwave Society in 2015, sponsored by e2v and held in Oxford, UK was a sell-out.

The SICRAL 2 military telecommunications satellite was successfully launched on April 26 with an Arianespace launch vehicle from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. SICRAL 2 is a joint program between the Ministry of Defense in Italy and Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA) in France for the benefit of Italian and French armed forces, with stakes of 62 percent and 38 percent respectively. It is conducted by Thales Alenia Space and Telespazio, the two companies in the Space Alliance created by Finmeccanica and Thales.

EDI CON China 2015 took place in the heart of the Beijing Olympic Village on April 14-16 at the China National Convention Center (CNCC). Over the 3 day event, 2625 attendees visited the exhibition and conference with a delegate count of 1214. The conference featured 5 parallel tracks on topics such as amplifier and component design, radar simulation and analysis, design for IoT, RF/microwave measurement and modeling, high speed design and measurement, sub-system and system design, PCB and connector design, and EMC/EMI modeling and measurement plus a newly added full day 5G Forum.

For applications where fast electronic signals in the GHz range need to be remotely acquired and analyzed Spectrum Systementwicklung GmbH has extended its digitizerNETBOX series of LXI based instruments and released eight new models.

Tech-X Corp. will be at IMS this year presenting their software solutions for electromagnetic and particle modeling. For 10 years Tech-X has been the industry leader in microwave device simulations with their flagship software tool, VSim.

DiTom Microwave will showcase and have on-hand, space qualified K and Ka-Band isolators at the upcoming IEEE MTT-S 2015 Conference & Exhibition in Phoenix, Ariz, May 17-22, Booth 1833. These K and Ka-Band space qualified isolators have successfully passed all qualification and acceptance testing per customer requirements.

API Technologies Corp., a leading provider of high performance radio frequency (RF), microwave, millimeter wave, power and security solutions announced it has entered into a definitive agreement with a wholly owned subsidiary of Cobham plc to acquire Aeroflex/Inmet Inc. and Aeroflex/Weinschel Inc. Inmet and Weinschel have each been in business for more than 50 years, and each manufactures and sells RF and microwave products for defense, space, avionics, wireless, and test and measurement applications.

Designed with the user in mind, Berkeley Nucleonics Corp. releases a new real-time spectrum analyzer (RTSA) that has all of the capabilities of the big brand units but at a cost that prompts the question “Why not buy four?”

Attendees of the 2015 International Microwave Symposium (IEEE-IMS) Exhibition will have the opportunity to see printed circuit boards made in-person by visiting LPKF Laser & Electronics in Booth #2218. LPKF will be bringing back the versatile milling/laser hybrid Rapid Prototyping system, the ProtoMat D104.