Engineers at Los Alamos National Laboratory are reinventing the mirror, at least for microwaves. Their invention could replace the familiar satellite dishes and microwave horns seen on rooftops and ...

An advanced antenna reflector designed and built by Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) has been successfully deployed in space onboard the Sirius FM-6 satellite which was designed and built by Space ...

PARIS — The Intelsat New Dawn satellite launched April 24 has been unable to deploy its C-band reflector antenna, depriving the satellite of half its intended functionality, because the antenna’s ...

L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) today announced a contract from Maxar Technologies to design and build reflector antennas for two geostationary communication satellites. The two nine-meter ...

The Ka-band frequency spectrum has recently gained attention thanks to the successful launch of several new satellite services, all of which utilize the advantages of a high frequency range. The beam ...

Seventeen days after NISAR’s launch from southeastern India, an essential piece of science hardware has unfurled in orbit. Spanning 12 metres, the drum-shaped antenna reflector on the NISAR (NASA-ISRO ...

Designing equipment that meets stringent size and mass restrictions for use on aircraft brings extra challenges for instrument developers, as Tamara Clelford explains Antennas are used for a huge ...

With an eye toward building space-qualified radio-frequency (RF) components for Earth observation and science instruments, the European Space Agency (ESA) has 3D printed a satellite antenna designed ...

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