SWAN™ is flying high

In the framework of a collaboration with Elettronica Aster S.p.A., a company operating in the defense market as a manufacturer of electronic devices for transmission and control applications, a number of X-band and Ku-band flat plate antennas where designed and manufactured, to address the needs for high-performance and broadband multifunction…

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SWAN™ now supports ridge waveguide technology

Following the many requests and expressions of interest, the new version of SWAN™ now also supports ridge waveguide technology. In SWAN™ it’s now possible to extract the model of a slot on a single-ridge waveguide, perform the design of a complete planar array, and analyze its performance, in the same…

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ExoMars gets official funding

European government officials on Thursday 2nd December 2016 approved the nearly 440 million euros ($464 million) the European Space Agency (ESA) said it needs to complete the second phase of its ExoMars mission. “The Agency is encouraged to strive to reap the benefits expected from the significant investments made through the ExoMars…

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SWAN™ will land on Mars

The ExoMars Program is a cooperative program between ESA and ROSCOSMOS with participation of NASA, aimed at investigating the Martian environment. The industrial consortium is led by ThalesAleniaSpace (TAS). The first satellite, successfully launched on 14th March 2016 and currently on its way to the Red Planet, consists of an Orbiter embarking a High…

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