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Validation of Ubiquitous 2D Radar
Seastema SpA, a company owned by Fincantieri (Genova, Italy), designs, develops, and supplies integrated automation systems for different areas of the marine industry. The company established an Innovation...
Articles Test & Measurement
New Pulse Analysis Techniques for Radar and EW
Pulsed signals are widespread in radar and other electronic warfare (EW) applications, and they must be accurately measured for manufacturing, design of countermeasures, and threat assessment;...
Application Briefs Electronics & Computers
Digital Radar Warning Receiver
Northrop Grumman CorporationFalls Church, VA703-280-2900www.northropgrumman.com Northrop Grumman Corporation recently received a $124.7 million award for production of AN/APR-39D(V)2 digital radar warning receiver...
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Co-Prime Frequency and Aperture Design for HF Surveillance, Wideband Radar Imaging, and Nonstationary Array Processing
A co-prime array uses two uniform linear subarrays to construct an effective difference coarray with certain desirable...
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New Products
RF and Microwave Power Amplifier Accessories Pasternack (Irvine, CA) has released a new series of RF and microwave power amplifier accessories that includes heat sinks, heat sinks with cooling fans, and power control cable...
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NASA Invites Proposal from Space-Based Large-Scale 3D-Printing Company
The International Space Station (ISS) is the most collectively expensive object built by humans. The total estimated cost is believed to be close to $150 billion. Aside...
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New Technologies Tackle UAV Challenges
Unmanned vehicles for air, land, and water represent an increasingly-important capability for virtually all military services worldwide. Because each new generation of device technology promises...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
First Air-Worthy Metal-Printed RF Filter Ready for Takeoff
Within the aerospace industry, 2016 and onwards could be looked upon as the tipping point for direct metal printing (DMP), as the technology increasingly made the jump beyond...
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New Products
RF Cable PIC Wire & Cable® (Sussex, WI), a Division of The Angelus Corporation, recently announced the launch of its new RFMATES ® ULTRALITE UH25107 cable. UH25107 is a 50 ohm RF aerospace cable that is highly shielded,...
Articles Imaging
Communications in Space: A Deep Subject
Transmitting and receiving radio signals between spacecraft in deep space is a snap compared with getting those signals back to Earth, especially when the spacecraft is 120 billion miles away.
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Radar Sensor Systems
Kelvin HughesLondon, UK+44 19 9280 5200www.kelvinhughes.com Kelvin Hughes recently announced a number of new coastal surveillance / Vessel Traffic Service (VTS) radar sensor sales references in Australia including...
Application Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Counter UAV System
SteekRock UAVLondon, UK+44 (0) 20 7491 8186www.sruav.co.uk The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is one of the most significant technological developments in the last decade. However, where once such equipment was unique...
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EU to Deploy UAV Traffic Management System by 2019
The Geneva-based body that navigates international air services for Switzerland and certain bordering countries, skyguide, joined forces with AirMap unmanned traffic management (UTM) to...
Articles Aerospace
NASA CubeSats: Pushing the Boundaries of Technology
NASA’s Small Spacecraft Technology Program is on the countdown clock to advance communications and proximity maneuvering capabilities for CubeSats with the Integrated Solar Array and...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
GaN Breaks Barriers
The increasing demand for higher data rates in telecommunications and higher resolution in industrial systems is pushing the frequency of operation higher for the electronics that support them. Many of these systems operate...
Briefs Aerospace
Sensitivity Simulation of Compressed Sensing Based Electronic Warfare Receiver Using Orthogonal Matching Pursuit Algorithm
Electronic Intelligence Receiver (ELINT) is an important component in electronic warfare (EW) and layer sensing. The...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
On-Orbit Satellite Refueling Flow Measurement
Over 7000 satellites have been placed in Earth-orbit since the beginning of the space age. 3000 are currently in orbit, of which 1000 are active, making our near space neighborhood a pretty crowded...
Articles Aerospace
NASA Miniaturizes Century-Old Radio Sounder Technology
A century-old technology that scientists use to probe the ionosphere — the important atmospheric layer that can interfere with the transmission of radio waves — is getting smaller.
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Fast-Tracking Autonomous Vehicles with Simulation
Artificial intelligence developments are set to fundamentally transform mobility, whether it is mobility of weapon payloads, supply deliveries, urban commuters, warehouse goods, delivery...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Designing Electronic Warfare to Regain Airborne Military Dominance
For decades, military aircraft have relied on electronic warfare (EW) solutions to protect assets and dominate airspace. The ability of the United States to detect and track...
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Recoated and Ready
Air superiority comes at a cost. The U.S. Air Force (USAF) F-22 Raptor may arguably be the most capable air superiority fighter ever built, but the aircraft has lingered in depots due to a variety of substantial...
Articles Defense
The Ins and Outs of Spaceflight Passive Components and Assemblies
RF and microwave components deployed in spaceflight applications can experience hundreds of degrees of temperature variation, massive amounts of radiation, and can be expected to...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Using High Bandwidth Oscilloscopes to Analyze Radar and Electronic Warfare Systems
Whether for multi-channel analysis, or for wider analysis bandwidth in a measurement, high bandwidth oscilloscopes offer an alternative to traditional spectrum...
Articles Communications
Bio-inspired Airborne Infrastructure Reconfiguration (BioAIR)
Conventionally, most autonomous mobile nodes, including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), are operated remotely by human operators. As such, forming a mobile communication network to...
Articles Aerospace
EMI Analysis Software Helps Telescope Group Simulate RFI Mitigation
Challenging Einstein’s seminal theory of relativity to the limits, how the very first stars and galaxies formed just after the Big Bang, the study of dark energy and the vast...
INSIDER RF & Microwave Electronics
Standing Still May Improve Antennas That Scan in All Directions
Antennas often need to trace circles in the sky. For example, radar arrays atop air-traffic control towers rotate to sweep signals in all directions. But spinning large objects...
Articles Test & Measurement
Analyzing Radar Signals with Demodulation
In the electronic warfare milieu, one of the most common RF applications is that of radar systems. Radar, which uses RF energy to determine the range, angle, and/or velocity of objects, detects...
Articles Aerospace
Combining Software and Hardware for Highly Specialized Multichannel Spectrum Monitoring
Systems specifically designed for spectrum monitoring applications typically acquire RF signals from a reference antenna or downlink, analyze the shape (or...
Articles Aerospace
Curled RF MEMS Switches For On-Chip Design
Microelectromechanical system (MEMS) switches are active components in most electronic equipment. Radio frequency (RF) MEMS are used in wireless personal communication devices, satellite communication,...
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