Author: ticra

Understanding Big Bang with reflector antennas The Planck Telescope was launched in 2009 and operated until 2013, with the purpose to measure and collect data from the Cosmic Microwave Background originating from the Big Bang 14 billion years ago. Before…

The never-ending desire to make the satellite payload more flexible. In the 1990’ies, demand grows for new type of services requiring flexible communications satellite payloads. Ideally, the satellite service provides want antennas that can change their antenna beams in orbit….

A special TICRA design task for a special antenna. Together with Kamfab (Swe) and the Nordic Optical Telescope Group of Risø (DK), TICRA was in the beginning of the 1990’ies chosen to design a 32 meter fully steerable radar antenna…

In the early 1980s, the idea of Reflector Shaping was born. Through several R&D-contracts with international partners, TICRA contributed to the developments of this technological area. In particular, TICRA developed the antenna design software product, POS, which have been used…

In 1989, the very first large-scale compact range for measuring antennas on satellites was built at ESTEC in Noordwijk, the Netherlands according to a design by Knud Pontoppidan of TICRA. The test range is named the Compact Payload Test Range…