RF Products
Space
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.)
Features
- 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
Examples
- 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).
Features
- Lightweight
- Input and output sections
- L- to V-band heritage
- High-power and PIM-free
- Build-to-spec
- Monolithic assemblies, no tunning screws
Examples
- 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).
Features
- 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
Examples
- 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).
Features
- Lowest loss (÷ 2)
- L- to V-band
- Build-to-spec
- Reduced mass (20-30%)
- Custom path & interfaces
- No dent tuning
- Integrated brackets
Examples
- Waveguide detangling nodes
- Waveguide bundles
- Waveguide isophase expanders
- Ultra-optimized routing
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