GovSatCom 2024 in Luxembourg
Team member of MIRAD microwave have attended at GovSatCom 2024 in Luxembourg on Februar, 22nd held place in the European Convention Center. It was a very interesting event to meet…
Waveguide Filters
Waveguide Filters Microwave filters are a fundamental component in the satcom industry’s signal processing. They allow signals to pass within their passband and block signals outside of the passband. Important transmission…
MIRAD participated at ESA’s TT&C 2022 at ESTEC in Noordwijk, the Netherlands
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…
S/X Dualband Feed for 32m Goonhilly Deep Space Antenna
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…
S/X-Band Feed System for Goonhilly (GHY 6) Deep Space Antenna
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…
High Power Low PIM X-Band Feed System
K/Ka-band Feed System
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…
X-Band 25kW High Power Harmonic Reject Filter
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…
SS/X/K Multiband Feed System
S/X/K-band Feed System
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,…
X/K-Band Feeds for ESAs Deep Space Antenna 2 & 3
X/K-band Feed for ESA Deep Space Beam-Waveguide Antenna
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.
Switching & Combining Systems (SSC) for Broadcast (BSS) or Fixed Satellite Services (FSS)
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.…