Members of the MIRAD microwave team participated in the European Space Agency's (ESA) 9th International Workshop on Telemetry, Tracking and Command (TT&C). The conference was held at ESA's Space Research…
The UK's Goonhilly Earth Station complex has developed the capability to support lunar and deep space missions for agencies, institutions and private companies. To do this, its 30- and 32-meter…
Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station is a space station on the Lizard Peninsula in England. In July 2015, the European Space Agency began a feasibility study to determine options for upgrading…
In early 2015, MIRAD was contracted to develop two feed systems operating in X-band. One unit is to be installed in a 9m class step-track antenna, while the second unit…
In the year 2015 MIRAD has been requested by ESA for the development of a special harrmonic reject filter to be implemented in their 25 kW X-band high power amplifiers…
National and international satellite missions such as the European Earth observation programs like Copernicus or the Sentinel satellites provide observational data on the state of the Earth's ecosystem. In addition,…
The European Space Agency (ESA) runs several scientific exploration and research deep space missions e.g. Rosetta, Mars-Express, Venus-Express or space observatories like Herschel or Planck. To ensure a reliable communication with such deep space probes, ESA has built up a ground station antenna network all over the globe.
After the successful completion of the XAA project in 2009. MIRAD has been requested again by EADS Asrteium (now Airbus Defence & Space) for the procurement of a X-band Antenna…
In the year 2008 MIRAD has been requested by EADS Asrteium (now Airbus Defence & Space) for the design, production, manufacturing and testing of a X-band Antenna Assemby (XAA). The…
In order to bundle the many different TV channel signals to a limited amount of antennas, high performance Tx switching and combining systems are required to guarantee a continuous operation. Therefore during the last two decades MIRAD has not only been the prime provider of various feed systems for SES’s ground station antenna parc in Betzdorf, Luxembourg, but has also designed and manufactured a large amount of complex switching and combining systems, often consisting of 2x9 channels.