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3D printing Space payloads: antennas and RF components

  • Antennas & Feeds
  • Filters & Components
  • Active Antennas
  • Waveguide Routing
  • Applications & advantages

SWISSto12’s 3D printed RF Space products and payloads offer satellite operators optimised radio frequency performance and greater mission flexibility, making them ideal for enhancing the effectiveness of space-based communications systems.

  • Product range

SWISSto12’s Space products include advanced antennas, waveguides and filters-all manufactured using state-of-the-art 3D printing technology. These product are optimized for enhanced RF performance, ensuring efficiency and reliability in demanding Space applications.

  • Qualifications & standards

Trusted by aerospace leaders, we have over 1,000 3D-printed RF products in orbit with proven heritage from L to Q-V bands.

- Global Horn & Bracket

- X GEO Multibeam Cluster

- Ka GEO Multibeam Cluster

- Global Horn & Bracket

- QV Antennas

- Ka GEO Multibeam Cluster

- Ka GEO Multibeam Cluster

Antennas & Feeds

SWISSto12’s antennas and feeds are monolithic units integrating different RF functions (horns, polarizers, OMTs, filters) and enabling lowest-mass and PIM-free performance. SWISSto12 delivers RF tested and environmentally qualified antennas for diverse applications (multibeam missions, shaped beam missions, SDR, SAR, LEO payloads, etc.)

  • Lightest-weight antennas
  • Can be grouped in clusters
  • Build-to-spec
  • Custom horn, shape and interfaces
  • C- to V-band heritage
  • Can include antenna bracket
  • High-power and PIM-free
  • Monolithic horn including polarizer, OMT, filters
  • X-band GEO antennas:
  • 7.25-7.75 GHz and/or 7.9-8.4 GHz
  • 2 or 4 ports
  • RHCP & LHCP
  • Low axial ratio
  • X-band GEO antennas:
  • 10.7-12.75 GHz and/or 13.75-14.5 GHz
  • 2 or 4 port
  • H & V
  • Low axial ratio
  • X-band GEO antennas:
  • 17.7-21.2 GHz and/or 27.5-30 GHz
  • 2 or 4 port
  • RHCP & LHCP
  • Low axial ratio
  • Global horn (GEO & LEO, global coverage, TCR):
  • C- to V-band  
  • 2 ports
  • Wide-beam (GEO & LEO, global coverage, TCR):
  • Ku- and Ka-band
  • 2 port
  • High-gain arrays (LEO & MEO mechanically steerable):
  • Ka-band; 4 port
  • Gain: > 30.8 dBi @ 20 GHz & 34.7 dBi @ 30 GHz
  • < 1 kg 
  • QV-band feed:
  • 37.5-42.5 GHz and/or 47.5-52.5 GHz
  • 2 or 4 port
  • RHCP & LHCP

- Ka BFN Multibeam

- Ka Filter (Output)

- Ku Filter (Combline)

- Ku Filter (PSF, 1)

- Ku Filter (PSF, 2)

- Ku Filter Bank Assembly

- Ku Test Coupler

- L Band Coaxial Lowpass

- L Band Coupler

- L Band Filter (Input, RX)

Filters & Components

SWISSto12 produces high-performance, Space-qualified, passive 3D printed RF products such as filters, couplers and assemblies for Space payloads (LEO to GEO).

  • Lightweight
  • Input and output sections
  • L- to V-band heritage
  • High-power and PIM-free
  • Build-to-spec
  • Monolithic assemblies, no tunning screws
  • Butler matrix:
  • Hyper-light
  • Combline filters
  • High-power
  • X-band filters & diplexers (Satcom):
  • High-isolation (100 dB)
  • Low PIM
  • Compact
  • Ku-band filters & diplexers (Satcom):
  • Low-loss
  • High-power
  • Low PIM
  • Wideband rejection
  • Ka-band filters & diplexers (Satcom):
  • Low-loss
  • High-power
  • Low PIM
  • Wideband rejection
  • Ultra-compact
  • QV-band filters & diplexers (Satcom):
  • Bandwidth 37-52.5 GHz
  • Low-loss
  • Couplers:
  • Custom coupling level and custom number of ports across several frequency bands (L- to QV-band)
  • Butler matrix
  • Multiport (4x4, 8x8) waveguide networks with custom form factor
  • Heritage in L- and Ka-band
  • Ka-band beamforming network
  • Low-loss, high-power waveguide network for Ka-band multibeam antennas
  • Developed for European Space Agency

- Ka LEO AESA (Expander & Filters)

- Ka LEO AESA (Expander)

- Ku LEO AESA (Flat panel)

- GEO Active Antenna

- GEO Active Antenna

Active Antennas

Active electronically steered antennas (AESAs) for Space applications in LEO, MEO and GEO in X-, Ku- and Ka-band. SWISSto12 design approach relies on using cutting-edge 3D printed passive radiating front-end clusters together with best-in-class solid-state technologies for beamforming and amplification (SSPAs and LNAs).

  • Space AESAs with mounted amplifiers and beamforming
  • LEO: patented miniature horns
  • GEO: based on tiles, lightweight
  • Multibeam, full-Earth coverage
  • LEO: wide bandwidth, lowest RF loss, wide-angle steering and excellent cross-polarization discrimination.
  • No grating lobes
  • LEO: lowest scan-loss in the market
  • Build-to-spec
  • Ku-band LEO AESA
  • Ka-band LEO AESA
  • X-band GEO AESA
  • Ku-band GEO AESA
  • Ka-band GEO AESA

- Built in Brackets

- Detangler

- Waveguide Bundle, Multiport

- Waveguide Routing

- Waveguide Routing

- Detangler

Waveguide Routing

SWISSto12 waveguide routing solutions represent a new paradigm in highly-dense RF payloads, which now benefit from an optimized signal interconnect approach that delivers the lowest signal loss while facilitating system integration (licensed from Airbus Defense and Space).

  • Lowest loss (÷ 2)
  • L- to V-band
  • Build-to-spec
  • Reduced mass (20-30%)
  • Custom path & interfaces
  • No dent tuning
  • Integrated brackets
  • Waveguide detangling nodes
  • Waveguide bundles
  • Waveguide isophase expanders
  • Ultra-optimized routing
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