SPACEBORNE RF SYSTEMS

Delmarva supports a variety of satellite manufacturing companies and facilities with S, X, Ku, and Ka Band transceivers and transponders, high data rate X and Ka band transmitters, encrypt/decrypt systems, with products from L3Harris Telemetry and RF Products in San Diego. Additionally, Smiths Interconnect (formerly Millitech) provides passive and active space-borne subsystems at millimeter wave frequencies; L3Harris NARDA ATM designs and manufactures spaceborne waveguide assemblies. Optisys is a leader in 3D printed antennas for space and hi-rel applications

Customers include: Northrop Grumman/Orbital Sciences, NASA Goddard, NASA Langley, The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, The Naval Research Lab, Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems. Among the many programs we have worked and currently support include: NASA SMEX missions, Orbital Carbon Observatory, NuStar, AIM, Radiation Belt Storm Probe, Solar Dynamics Observatory, Themis, NuStar, STP-SIV, NEMO, MIS, IS-18, Hylas 2, PTSS, TACSAT-4, STPSat 6, EspaSat, Cygnus and various classified programs.

  • L, S, X, Ka Band TT&C for STDN, SGLS, USB, Spread, and custom waveforms

  • Mission Data and Payload Transmitters at S, X, and Ka

  • Embedded and Stand-alone AES and Type 1 COMSEC LEO to GEO

  • 3D Printed Antennas, waveguide and RF components to 100 GHz
  • Millimeter Wave antennas and sub-assemblies
  • Waveguide and coaxial components to 100 GHz