Celebrating our first 50 years in space

Celebrating our first 50 years in space!

In November 2021, we proudly celebrated TICRA’s 50th anniversary. TICRA was founded in The Apollo Age, and throughout the company history TICRA’s focus has been on modelling of antennas for satellite communications. This includes antennas for the space segment as well as antennas on the ground.

In a number of LinkedIn posts, we summarized the key highlights in TICRA’s development from a new company to the world-leading company of today.

Find all the highlights from TICRA's first 50 years in space below.

1970's To top ↑

• The Apollo Age

• A spin-off from the Technical University of Denmark

• When great researchers inspire new technology!

• Our first own computer!

1980's To top ↑

• OLYMPUS – entering the high-capacity service era in Ka-band!

• SNIFT - Precision measurements of antennas, a new era starts!

• The establishment of TICRA Foundation

• The first large-scale compact antenna test range

• TICRA’s POS product: Designing the contours of the antenna beam

1990's To top ↑

• TICRA in Svalbard

• Reconfigurable reflector antennas

• A decade of Planck

• The first version of CHAMP

2000's To top ↑

• ALMA observatory: See through cosmic dust

• DIATOOL: Speed up the antenna development cycle

• SATSOFT acquisition

• QUPES: Tailoring the details of the antenna surface

2010's To top ↑

• Measuring Earth from afar: Microwave radiometers

• Characterising inhomogeneous and rough materials using a scatterometer

• TICRA Tools: Seamless and efficient antenna modeling

• ESTEAM: Accurate and efficient prediction of the full antenna system

• Reflectarray antennas: Great ideas and powerful software

• Large European Antenna: European independence in space

• CIMR: Unparalleled European Earth observation mission

• Large DIATOOL: Diagnosing antennas on satellite platforms

• Uncertainty Quantification: Making useful predictions about antenna systems

• Array antennas: Flexible satellite services of the future