Cobham Microwave announces the design and manufacture of RF & Microwave Amplifiers and Mixers for space programmes. The contract is part of the European Component Initiative launched by the European Space Agency (ESA), which aims to develop and qualify several critical space components in order to improve the European space industry’s autonomy.
With the deployment of Galileo programme, it is essential that European suppliers demonstrate their ability to design and produce space quality level components such as hybrid cascadable amplifiers and double balanced mixers. Cobham Microwave has the required design and process expertise, resources and facilities to offer these products. Those components will subsequently be listed in the European Preferred Parts List. These new space level part types will become available around mid 2007.
The specifications are based on the following typical characteristics:
Hybrid cascadable amplifier
Frequency | 5-250 MHz |
High-gain two-stage | 31 dB |
Medium output level | +8.5 dBm |
Wide power supply range | +8V to +15V |
Low VSWR | <1.3:1 |
Thin-film hybrid in hermetic package | |
Hybrid double balanced mixers
| | MH A | MH B |
Frequency | 0.5-500 MHz | 10-1500 MHz |
| Conversion Loss (typ.) | 6.5 dB | 6 dB midband |
| Max. Input Power @ 25°C | 300 mW |
| IF Port Current (max) | 50 mA |
| Package | Hermetic Flat-Pack |
The Diodes and Modules Business Unit of Cobham Microwave is located in Les Ulis (south of Paris ), in France . The Business Unit is specialised in designing and manufacturing RF & Microwave components for Hi-Rel applications, such as silicon PIN diodes, varactors, MOS capacitors, and multi-functions sub-systems (diode limiters, switches, duplexers…). Cobham Microwave already holds ESCC qualifications and several products are listed in the European Preferred Parts List (EPPL).
About Cobham Microwave:
With 350 employees, Cobham Microwave designs and manufactures RF and Microwave Systems and Components: Diodes & Modules, RF Filters and Duplexers, Ferrites Devices, and Waveguides. Cobham Microwave provides RF and Microwave Systems and Components to Telecom, Space, Defence and Medical Original Equipment Manufacturers.
About ESA:
ESA, 17 member states pooling their resources to create a dynamic programme of space exploration and technology: Satellite communications and navigation systems, Earth observation and meteorology, launchers, human spaceflight and laboratories, exploration of the solar system and deep space.
Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Canada participates in certain ESA programmes under a cooperation agreement. www.esa.int