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GHGSat has successfully launched two new satellites—Pierre (C-12) and Valmay (C-13), pictured above—aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-14 rideshare mission, with the company now reaching a total of 14 launched satellites.

The satellites deployed from the Falcon 9 rocket approximately 55 minutes after liftoff, marking another milestone in GHGSat’s mission of equipping decision-makers with actionable data on methane emissions from around the world.

With this launch, GHGSat now has the unique capability to monitor methane emissions from carbon-intensive industries, such as oil and gas, coal mining, and waste, on a daily basis. This transformative frequency enables near real-time tracking and mitigation, helping companies and governments take faster, better-informed action to reduce emissions.

Operating the world’s largest fleet of satellites dedicated to methane, GHGSat provides comprehensive global coverage of methane emissions, surveying more than 4 million sites annually and tracing the source of leaks down to individual pieces of industrial equipment. In 2024 alone, GHGSat detected more than 20,000 emissions over the “super-emitter” threshold of 100 kg/hr. Drawing on unmatched revisit rates and delivering data within hours of a detected emission, GHGSat serves as a trusted partner to industry, government, and financial institutions around the world.

Speed is critical because, while methane is more than 80 times more potent than CO₂ over a 20-year period, it also breaks down in the atmosphere much faster—within about a decade. This means that cutting methane emissions quickly demonstrates benefits for the environment. As international focus sharpens on reducing short-lived greenhouse gases, access to timely, precise, and independent emissions data that pinpoints and quantifies them is foundational for action.

Reducing methane emissions isn’t just good for the planet-it’s also good for business. For the oil and gas sector, methane emissions represent a financial loss: every ton of methane that escapes from oil & gas infrastructure is lost potential revenue. By identifying and fixing leaks rapidly, operators can retain more gas, improve operational efficiency, and reduce regulatory and reputational risks stemming from methane emissions. Studies from organizations such as the International Energy Association have shown that methane mitigation is one of the most cost-effective sustainability actions the industry can take-and can often be done at no net cost to operators.

Moreover, reducing methane emissions bolsters domestic energy security goals. By minimizing losses across production and distribution systems, countries can get more value from their existing energy infrastructure without expanding output. This makes energy supplies more stable and predictable-critical in an era of geopolitical shifts and rising global energy demand. With satellite data, policymakers and energy producers alike can make better-informed decisions that support secure, resilient energy systems.

Now almost a decade since the launch of its first pioneering satellite, Claire, GHGSat continues to rapidly scale its monitoring and data services to meet the surging demand for facility-level emissions data, supporting informed emissions reduction across the public and private sectors worldwide.

This launch represents a turning point in our ability to combat methane, one of the fastest levers that the world has to make progress on sustainability targets,” said GHGSat CEO, Stéphane Germain. “The addition of Pierre and Valmay allows us to deliver a level of global insight and granularity that was unimaginable just a few years ago. Daily monitoring ensures that operators are swiftly alerted of emissions across their assets, enabling rapid mitigation that ultimately drives methane reduction.”

About GHGSat
GHGSat is a global technology leader with pioneering emissions-monitoring capabilities that drive industrial efficiency with positive impact. Harnessing the power of satellites and aircraft, GHGSat traces emissions directly to their source at an unmatched speed, delivering the data and insights required to take action. A trusted partner for organizations around the world, GHGSat empowers decision-makers to tackle emissions, accelerating progress towards a resilient energy future.

BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) won a more than $24 million, four-year, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Luno A Facility Operational Monitoring (FOMO) delivery order for global monitoring of military and economic facilities. As part of the order, BlackSky has received an initial base and surge option award of $2 million.

Under the delivery order, BlackSky will perform AI-enabled object and pattern-of-life change detection to monitor trends and anomalies in vehicle, aircraft, vessel, railcar and ground equipment activity at military and economic facilities worldwide, including ports, airfields, military installations and railways.

BlackSky monitors more than 30 million square kilometers of the Earth’s surface for the NGA. In October, NGA selected BlackSky for the five-year, up to $290 million Luno-A multi-award, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract to monitor global economic and environmental activity and military capability using high-cadence, rapid revisit satellite imagery and AI-driven change-detection analytics.

The Luno A contract also contributes to the creation of new products, data and services that employ innovative uses for artificial intelligence to manage high volumes of data, produce deeper insights and boost predictive analytical capabilities. BlackSky’s scalable and cost-effective AI tools allow for more frequent data-intensive broad area search and discovery queries than traditional solutions.

Securing this Luno A task order continues BlackSky’s long record of success delivering our industry leading commercial real-time, AI-enabled dynamic monitoring capabilities at machine speed and scale in service to U.S. national security,” said Brian O’Toole, BlackSky CEO. “With unmatched speed and economics, BlackSky continues to improve upon our first-of-its-kind space-based intelligence system with the coming addition of our very high-resolution Gen-3 satellites to our high frequency, low latency constellation that will provide even more rapid, detailed and precise insights to support the critical needs of our customers.”

ThrustMe has successfully launched its 100th propulsion system into space—this milestone was achieved aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 Transporter-14 mission that launched to space on June 23rd. The launcher carried a total of 26 ThrustMe propulsion units across seven satellites.

The electric space propulsion industry has grown rapidly in recent years. Just six years ago, fewer than ten electric propulsion systems were launched globally each year. Today, SpaceX alone deploys more than 1,500 propulsion systems on the Starlink fleet per year, with the rest of the industry contributing modestly with an additional 500. With this exponential growth, market forecasts now predict an annual demand for between 3,000 and 8,000 propulsion units in the coming years.

ThrustMe’s propulsion systems have accumulated more than 12,000 operational hours in orbit. One system has already completed its full mission lifetime after a few years in orbit, while another has achieved a 30 km orbit raise in just 12 days. In this latest launch, one of the satellites will soon attempt the world’s first proximity operation using electric propulsion; a significant step forward in on-orbit servicing and inspection capabilities.

As satellite missions become more complex and automated, and autonomous maneuvers more critical, scalable and reliable in-orbit propulsion has become essential. ThrustMe’s innovative use of solid iodine propellant eliminates the complexity and supply constraints of traditional xenon systems, enabling safer and more cost-effective satellite operations.

ThrustMe is doubling its production capacity annually since 2023, an exceptional pace for such sophisticated space systems. As one of the few companies capable of delivering high- reliability propulsion solutions at industrial scale, ThrustMe is uniquely positioned to meet the accelerating needs of the global space sector.

There is a clear production bottleneck in the propulsion supply chain,” says Dr. Ane Aanesland, co-founder and CEO of ThrustMe, “but increasing production capacity must be done carefully to preserve the product quality and reliability that are vital for both our clients and the global space ecosystem.”

On Monday, June 23 at 2:25 p.m. PT, Falcon 9 launched the Transporter-14 mission to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Photos by Satnews.

This was the 26th flight for the first stage booster supporting this mission which previously launched NROL-87, NROL-85, SARah-1, SWOT, Transporter-8, Transporter-9, NROL-146, Bandwagon-2, NROL-153, NROL-192, and 15 Starlink missions.

Transporter-14 was a dedicated smallsat rideshare mission. There were 70 payloads on this flight, including cubesats, microsats, re-entry capsules, and orbital transfer vehicles carrying three of those payloads to be deployed at a later time.

SpaceX to launch Transporter-14 mission on Monday from California

SpaceX is targeting Monday, June 23 for a Falcon 9 launch of the Transporter-14 mission to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The 57-minute launch window opens at 2:18 p.m. PT.

A live webcast of this mission will begin about 15 minutes prior to liftoff, which you can watch on X @SpaceX. You can also watch the webcast on the new X TV app.

This will be the 26th flight for the first stage booster supporting this mission which previously launched NROL-87, NROL-85, SARah-1, SWOT, Transporter-8, Transporter-9, NROL-146, Bandwagon-2, NROL-153, NROL-192, and 15 Starlink missions. Following stage separation, Falcon 9 will land on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship stationed in the Pacific Ocean.

Transporter-14 is a dedicated smallsat rideshare mission. There are 70 payloads on this flight, including cubesats, microsats, re-entry capsules, and orbital transfer vehicles carrying three of those payloads to be deployed at a later time.

Exolaunch to deploy their largest mission to date — 45 customer satellites on Transporter-14

Exolaunch is set to deploy 45 customer satellites on the upcoming Transporter-14 rideshare mission with SpaceX aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. This mission highlights Exolaunch’s role as a trusted partner for rideshare launches and represents unparalleled expertise and flight heritage

The Transporter-14 mission represents a major milestone for Exolaunch as its largest mission to date, building on the company’s track record of providing reliable and precise access to orbit for customers worldwide. Exolaunch’s teams of experts will manage the deployment of numerous microsatellites, up to 250 kilograms, and CubeSats, up to 16U in size, supporting 25 new and returning customers from the USA, UK, Lithuania, Finland, Belgium, Germany, Australia, Canada, South Korea, France, Japan, Spain, Norway, Italy, and Greece.

On this mission, Exolaunch will use its flight-proven deployment systems, including:

• CarboNIX microsatellite separation rings in 8″, 11″, 15″, and 24″ sizes
• EXOpod Nova advanced CubeSat deployers, supporting higher-mass and larger volume satellites with exceptional reliability
• Quadro four-point separation systems, offering synchronized release and ultra-low tip-off rates for precision microsatellite deployments

Exolaunch’s EXOpod Nova deployers have now supported more than 100 delivered units and hundreds of successful CubeSat deployments, reinforcing Nova’s reputation as a trusted next-generation deployer for CubeSat mission.

Exolaunch continues to be the only launch integrator to have manifested satellites on every Transporter mission since the program’s inception in 2020. With Transporter-14, Exolaunch will celebrate its 37th mission overall, having deployed over 530 satellites across 36 previous missions on different global launch vehicles.

As part of the company’s comprehensive service offering, Exolaunch has managed global logistics, satellite integration, deployment, and testing for its customers aboard the Transporter-14 mission—a turnkey solution trusted by the world’s most ambitious space programs.

Transporter-14 marks a historic achievement for Exolaunch and our customers,” said Robert Sproles, Chief Executive Officer at Exolaunch. “Our flight heritage, reliability, and hardware performance continue to set the standard in the rideshare industry. We are grateful to our customers for their trust and to SpaceX for being an outstanding partner as we continue to open space for all.”

This milestone reflects not just the growth of Exolaunch, but also the expanding demand for global access to space,” said Jeanne Allarie, Chief Commercial and Marketing Officer at Exolaunch. “Our unmatched success across these missions and the growing adoption of our Nova, CarboNIX, Quadro and Neo systems highlight the strength of our technology and services. We deeply appreciate our customers’ and SpaceX’s ongoing confidence in our team.”

Filed Under: Booster, Booster Recovery, Cubesats, Droneship, Droneship Landings, Exolaunch, Falcon 9, LEO Payloads, Low Earth Orbit (LEO), Microsat, Microsatellites, Mission Payloads, Rideshare, Rideshare Mission, Smallsat Launch Vehicles, Space Vehicles, SpaceX, SpaceX Rideshare, Transporter-14, Vandenberg SFB

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the Kuiper 2 mission for Amazon’s Project Kuiper lifted off on June 23 at 6:54 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

This mission marks the next step in Amazon’s initiative to provide fast, reliable internet to customers around the world, including those in unserved and underserved communities.

The Kuiper 2 launch deployed the second batch of operational Project Kuiper satellites into the intended orbit. There are six remaining Kuiper missions on the Atlas V rocket, building up to 38, high-cadence, rapid fire launches on the next-generation Vulcan rocket. ULA will deliver more than half of the Project Kuiper constellation’s 3,200 satellites, through the world’s largest commercial launch agreement. 

We are proud to continue our strong partnership with Amazon and empower their mission to bridge the digital divide through reliable satellite technology,” said Gary Wentz, ULA vice president of Government and Commercial Programs. “ULA, working as a catalyst to global connectivity in collaboration with Amazon, enables delivery of these critical satellites designed to drive innovation and connect the world.” 

TLA’s next launch is the first Vulcan mission for the U.S. Space Force, USSF-106.

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Exolaunch is set to deploy 45 customer satellites on the upcoming Transporter-14 rideshare mission with SpaceX aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. This mission highlights Exolaunch’s role as a trusted partner for rideshare launches and represents unparalleled expertise and flight heritage

The Transporter-14 mission represents a major milestone for Exolaunch as its largest mission to date, building on the company’s track record of providing reliable and precise access to orbit for customers worldwide. Exolaunch’s teams of experts will manage the deployment of numerous microsatellites, up to 250 kilograms, and CubeSats, up to 16U in size, supporting 25 new and returning customers from the USA, UK, Lithuania, Finland, Belgium, Germany, Australia, Canada, South Korea, France, Japan, Spain, Norway, Italy, and Greece.

On this mission, Exolaunch will use its flight-proven deployment systems, including:

• CarboNIX microsatellite separation rings in 8″, 11″, 15″, and 24″ sizes
• EXOpod Nova advanced CubeSat deployers, supporting higher-mass and larger volume satellites with exceptional reliability
• Quadro four-point separation systems, offering synchronized release and ultra-low tip-off rates for precision microsatellite deployments

Exolaunch’s EXOpod Nova deployers have now supported more than 100 delivered units and hundreds of successful CubeSat deployments, reinforcing Nova’s reputation as a trusted next-generation deployer for CubeSat mission.

Exolaunch continues to be the only launch integrator to have manifested satellites on every Transporter mission since the program’s inception in 2020. With Transporter-14, Exolaunch will celebrate its 37th mission overall, having deployed over 530 satellites across 36 previous missions on different global launch vehicles.

As part of the company’s comprehensive service offering, Exolaunch has managed global logistics, satellite integration, deployment, and testing for its customers aboard the Transporter-14 mission—a turnkey solution trusted by the world’s most ambitious space programs.

Transporter-14 marks a historic achievement for Exolaunch and our customers,” said Robert Sproles, Chief Executive Officer at Exolaunch. “Our flight heritage, reliability, and hardware performance continue to set the standard in the rideshare industry. We are grateful to our customers for their trust and to SpaceX for being an outstanding partner as we continue to open space for all.”

This milestone reflects not just the growth of Exolaunch, but also the expanding demand for global access to space,” said Jeanne Allarie, Chief Commercial and Marketing Officer at Exolaunch. “Our unmatched success across these missions and the growing adoption of our Nova, CarboNIX, Quadro and Neo systems highlight the strength of our technology and services. We deeply appreciate our customers’ and SpaceX’s ongoing confidence in our team.”

Filed Under: Booster, Booster Recovery, Cubesats, Droneship, Droneship Landings, Exolaunch, Falcon 9, LEO Payloads, Low Earth Orbit (LEO), Microsat, Microsatellites, Mission Payloads, Rideshare, Rideshare Mission, Smallsat Launch Vehicles, Space Vehicles, SpaceX, SpaceX Rideshare, Transporter-14, Vandenberg SFB

Palm oil, the world’s most widely consumed vegetable oil, is an inescapable component of most manufactured consumer products, present in roughly 50% of supermarket packaged products ranging from pizza to toothpaste, or products like animal feed and biofuels.

Grown primarily near the equator, palm oil production is incredibly efficient, with the highest yield per hectare among vegetable oils, but still has traditionally been known for its deforestation impacts, as rainforest in tropical areas has been cleared to make way for plantations.

While the deforestation impacts are widely known, satellites are now also beginning to uncover a previously unseen impact of palm oil production: methane emissions.

Following the publication of a scientific study in Environmental Research Letters, which confirmed the accuracy of GHGSat’s high-resolution satellites in measuring methane from palm oil mills, GHGSat’s constellation has increasingly homed in on palm oil ponds in tropical regions around the world, including South America, Asia, and Africa. As of late April 2025, GHGSat’s fleet of satellites has identified more than 50 methane emissions from 12 different countries.

Methane from palm oil mills is not unexpected, as it stems from the industry’s standard production processes and byproducts. Palm oil production produces a large amount of wastewater, known as POME (palm oil mill effluent), which is typically stored in open ponds. As the organic waste in the ponds, such as pulp and shells from the palm fruits, decomposes, it produces methane in a process much like decomposing trash in a landfill. The pond system was designed to curb local water contamination from releasing POME into the riverways and channels, but had an unintended impact. Now, however, for the first time it can be accurately quantified by satellites.

Now, the ability of satellites to quantify the methane from palm oil mills paves the way for potential better accounting of the industry’s total environmental impacts and effective, profitable mitigation of the emissions.

Landfill operators and municipalities with similar methane challenges have seized on the potential of waste diversion, recycling, or and gas capture systems to limit methane emissions or even transform them into a source of additional profit—converting it to natural gas to sell back to local power grids or power on-site operations. Similar approaches and technologies exist for palm oil mill operators.

The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) was formed in 2004, and sets sustainability standards for the palm oil sector, certifying growers that meet those standards. Alongside other initiatives related to deforestation and workers’ rights, RSPO has developed a PalmGHG calculator to enable palm oil growers to estimate their net greenhouse gas emissions and implement more sustainable practices.

Palm oil is a $48.1 billion industry, concentrated in countries near the equator, with Indonesia and Malaysia estimated to produce roughly 90% of the global supply. The Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil estimates that the industry provides a living for some seven million smallholder farmers globally, including direct jobs for four million people in Indonesia and nearly a million in Malaysia. Many of the economic benefits of palm oil are focused in remote, rural areas where work can be hard to find.

This is the power of high-resolution satellite technology: it illuminates a previously opaque challenge, and delivers the insights required to map out a solution,” said Stephane Germain, CEO of GHGSat. “Precise data is the first step toward action, and satellite technologies are a part of the puzzle.”

As industries worldwide, from the energy sector to mining or palm oil, seek to mitigate emissions from their activities, GHGSat serves as a trusted partner, providing independent data to global industry and government leaders so that they can tackle emissions with confidence. GHGSat made history in 2016 with the launch of the world’s first satellite capable of directly attributing methane emissions to individual industrial facilities. Since then, the company has steadily expanded its proprietary constellation, which currently includes 12 commercial satellites in orbit, which track emissions from tens of thousands of sites per day—a number far exceeding the capacity of any emerging competitor. GHGSat’s expanding fleet continues to set the standard in satellite emissions monitoring, enabling faster response times and greater coverage than any other player in the market.

STMicroelectronics’ LEOPOL1 point-of-load step-down converter for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) deployments meets the needs of equipment developers targeting the New Space market, now expanding throughout North America, Asia, and Europe.

The emerging New Space industry, driven by private-sector companies, is enabling new services such as communication and earth observation, delivered from satellites built and launched cost-effectively into low earth orbits. The LEOPOL1 is the latest in ST’s LEO series of power, analog, and logic ICs developed for low cost of ownership with quality assurance and radiation hardness optimized for LEO satellites, leveraging automotive best practices including statistical process control.

The LEOPOL1 is radiation hardened by design to withstand the hazards encountered in LEO altitudes, leveraging ST’s space-proven BCD6-SOI (Silicon-On-Insulator) technology. Key hardness parameters include 50 krad(Si) total ionizing dose (TID) and 3.1011 proton/cm2 total non-ionizing dose (TNID). Single-event effects (SEE) performance is characterized up to 62 MeV.cm2/mg.

The LEOPOL1 provides extended flexible features including out-of-phase current sharing, which permits multiplying the current to the load with multiple LEOPOL1 converters working in parallel. In addition, synchronization capability allows easy sequencing to power-up equipment with multiple voltage rails. The converter delivers up to 7A and accept an input voltage up to 12V at ground level and has demonstrated 5A at 6V at 62 MeV.cm2/mg s.

With the LEOPOL1, ST’s LEO series now covers a wide range of circuit-design needs. The portfolio also includes popular logic gates and buffers, an LVDS transceiver, 8-channel 12-bit ADC, and a low-dropout regulator (LDO). All devices meet ST’s proprietary specification developed specifically for LEO applications, which covers performance parameters as well as manufacturing controls, qualification and are delivered with a Certificate of Conformance (CoC).

The LEOPOL1 is in production now. It is available in 31-piece tubes, 250-piece tape and reel, and 7-piece tape sticks for samples. Pricing information is provided on request.

AAC Clyde Space has won an order worth 0.12 million euros (approx. SEK 1.3 million) from University College Dublin for a mission study in the first phase of the development program COMCUBE-S.

The study will assess the technical feasibility of the proposed mission and marks an initial step in a structured process that may lead to a CubeSat Swarm In-orbit Demonstration mission. The study is scheduled for delivery in the fourth quarter of 2025.

COMCUBE-S is a technical project aiming to develop new capabilities for observing Gamma Ray Bursts (GRB)—short-lived and extremely powerful events in space. By delivering faster and more detailed information about these phenomena, the mission will support scientists in making new discoveries about the nature and origins of GRBs.

The project follows ESA‘s established In-Orbit Demonstration process and begins with a so-called Phase A study, which assesses the mission’s technical feasibility. AAC Clyde Space is responsible for the system design in this initial phase, working in close collaboration with the project lead, University College Dublin.

A decision on further development is expected at the end of 2025, once the study is completed. A central element of COMCUBE-S is the use of a satellite swarm: a coordinated network of many small satellites operating together on-orbit. The swarm enables rapid, multi-angle observations of short-lived space phenomena and improves the ability to measure polarization—a key property of gamma-ray bursts that can help reveal how these violent events originate.

To achieve sufficient coverage and accuracy, the project ultimately aims to build a constellation of as many as 27 satellites. The assignment strengthens AAC Clyde Space’s position as a supplier of complete satellite missions—from design to operations—in technically advanced projects. It provides an opportunity to apply the company’s own components, systems engineering and methods for constellation development.

Experience gained through the ESA-funded xSPANCION program, in which AAC Clyde Space developed scalable solutions for satellite swarms, will be directly applicable. The work forms part of a broader collaboration with University College Dublin to advance the COMCUBE-S mission. The selection of COMCUBE-S from among seven European finalists in ESA’s SysNova Challenge confirms the strength of the technical concept and the partner constellation.

This project demonstrates how we translate technical expertise into real-world results. COMCUBE-S clearly illustrates our ability to take the lead in missions that combine scientific objectives with the highest technical demands,” said AAC Clyde Space CEO Luis Gomes.

COMCUBE-S represents a significant step forward in our ability to study gamma ray bursts and unlock new scientific insights into the most energetic events in the universe,” said Lorraine Hanlon, Director at UCD Centre for Space Research.

About COMCUBE-S
The project is led by University College Dublin and aims to improve understanding of gamma-ray bursts – extremely bright and short-lived explosions that occur, for example, when neutron stars collide. Using a swarm of satellites, the project will collect polarimetric data and localise these events in real time. This opens new opportunities in so-called multi-messenger astronomy, where different types of space data are combined to provide a more complete picture of cosmic phenomena. AAC Clyde Space is responsible for system design in the project’s initial phase and serves as the industrial partner in the first delivery. COMCUBE-S is one of two selected concepts from ESA’s SysNova Challenge and is supported through the Discovery & Preparation programme. The Consortium partners also include Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), France, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (CEA), France, and Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH), Sweden.

Qorvo® (Nasdaq: QRVO) has launched their new Ka-band power amplifier (PA) that is designed to improve the performance and integration of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites.

Developed to meet the evolving demands of next-generation payloads, Qorvo’s newest PA further expands its proven GaN-on-SiC SATCOM portfolio, giving system designers a more efficient, compact and scalable option for space-based payloads.

Qorvo’s QPA1722 PA offers customers three times the instantaneous bandwidth, a 38% smaller footprint and 10% higher efficiency than competing devices. These enhancements enable greater data throughput and more flexible payload architectures, critical for meeting global connectivity goals in size- and power-constrained satellite platforms.

Key Features of the QPA1722:

• Frequency Range: 17.7–20.2 GHz
• Output power: 10W (saturated); 6W (linear)
• 1 GHz instantaneous bandwidth for high data-rate applications
• 36% efficiency for improved power handling and thermal management
• Compact SMT package for streamlined system integration

Qorvo’s existing Ka-band ground solutions are already enabling global connectivity, and a next-generation, higher-performance lineup is scheduled to debut this summer. Paired with the QPA1722 and Qorvo’s full portfolio of SATCOM products, these enhancements will deliver a more powerful, efficient end-to-end ground-to-space link that reinforces Qorvo’s commitment to connecting the world through space. Additional offerings can be found on our SATCOM solutions page.

The QPA1722 is sampling now, with volume production planned for the Fall of 2025. Qorvo also provides evaluation kits upon request.

The QPA1722 helps us meet the rising demand for LEO constellation deployment,” said Doug Bostrom, general manager of Qorvo’s Defense and Aerospace business. “According to Gartner® research, the most obvious opportunity for LEO satellites is the ubiquitous provision of broadband services to consumers and businesses, reinforcing the demand for compact, high-efficiency payload solutions in space-based networks.”

Qorvo® (Nasdaq: QRVO) has also introduced two, high-performance, S-Band, switched filter bank (SFB) modules designed to meet the rising demand for agile, compact and efficient radar systems in aerospace and defense applications.

As radar platforms evolve to support multi-function capabilities in compact form factors, designers need faster frequency agility and tighter spectral control. Qorvo’s new QPB1034 and QPB1036 modules meet these needs with integrated BAW filtering and fast-switching logic in a compact 6 x 6 mm package—reducing size while enhancing performance.

The QPB1034 and QPB1036 modules, sampling now, integrate high-selectivity BAW filters and bypass paths into compact packages, supporting S-Band radar systems that require rapid tuning and precise signal control. The QPB1034 is optimized for lower S-Band frequencies, while the QPB1036 offers broader coverage and higher channel density, while keeping the same fast switching speed.

Qorvo’s switched filter bank modules enable radar designers to reduce size and complexity without sacrificing performance,” said Dean White, senior director of Defense and Aerospace Market Strategy at Qorvo. “Our BAW technology enables unmatched rejection and channel density in a fully integrated form factor—making these solutions ideal for agile radar front ends.”

Qorvo provides scalable, high-performance RF solutions that meet the rigorous demands of the aerospace and defense industries. For more information on Qorvo’s wide-ranging radar solutions, including land, sea and airborne radar platforms, please visit Qorvo’s Radar Technology page.