MtronPTI has over 125 design wins across satellite platforms and manned spacecraft. With expertise supporting LEO, MEO, and GEO applications, MtronPTI has a well-established team and a proven track record of meeting demanding space requirements.
With the evolving need for high-power space-level transmitters, high-power handling space-level RF components and sub-assemblies are instrumental for mission success. The performance of these devices used in orbiting satellites are significantly different compared to how they perform at sea level due to phenomena like multipaction. Some space-level applications require both continuous operation performance in outer space as well as performance during the assent to space, i.e. undergoing a pressure change from ambient to 1 x 10-5 Torr over temperature to avoid corona discharge.
Understanding the capability of the high-power handling RF components and sub-assemblies during the assent to space and in orbit is critical for successful space missions. Detecting potential risks at an early stage prevents a catastrophic failure.
In addition to existing in-house testing capabilities1 for testing space-level components and RF assemblies, MtronPTI has invested in simulation tools like Spark3D to maximize power handling capability under vacuum in the early stages of the design process.
MtronPTI has also invested in an altitude (hypobaric) chamber to support high-power handling RF components and sub-assemblies testing. The incorporation of an altitude test chamber enables MtronPTI to adjust the temperature of the environmental test chamber while exposing the product under test to pressure approaching 1 x 10-5 Torr. By combining Spark3D simulations and altitude testing, MtronPTI enhances the probability of mission success.
MtronPTI space-level products comply with ANSI/AIAA S-142-2016, Standard/Handbook for Multipactor Breakdown Prevention in Spacecraft Components.
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