New Space applications
Undoubtedly, the space industry is one of the strongest innovation drivers today.
In the past, space applications helped making our lives on earth better with applications that resulted from Space technologies such as:
Airbag
ABS
Satnav – GPS
Baby formula
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Israel’s astronauts in Space
Ilan Ramon was born in 1954 in Ramat-Gan, Israel. His father Eliezer fled Germany in 1935 and his mother Tonya survived the Auschwitz extermination camp. Ilan’s parents immigrated to Israel after the second world war, in 1949. Ilan grew up in the town of Beer Sheba (south of Israel) and graduated from high school in 1972. In 1972, Ilan graduated with a B.Sc. degree in electronics and computer engineering from the Tel Aviv University.
Space IL – The Israeli Moon landing mission
The adventure began in 2011 with SpaceIL as the dream of three Israeli entrepreneurs: Yariv Bash, Kfir Damari, and Yehonatan Weintraub, and swiftly grew into a national project with numerous funders, collaborators, employees, and volunteers. Harvey Kaylie, the founder of Mini-Circuits (Z”L), became aware of this project and was one of the first to support this unique and historic endeavor aiming at strengthening the high-tech sector, promote education and see Mini-Circuits’ name literally reach the moon.
The Israeli Space Industry
Israel has a lengthy history of accomplishment in space, including technological advancement, applications, and competitive products. The Space Program began in the 1980s, when Israel was the ninth country in the world to successfully launch and position satellites in space. This was an extraordinary achievement for a country of less than 4 million inhabitants at the time.
The primary goal was and continues to be to build a comprehensive infrastructure for space research. Due to security concerns and a lack of resources, Israel has primarily focused on miniaturizing technologies and developing small, light satellites with high resolution, remote sensing, and communication capabilities. Israel is regarded as a world leader in this industry: a small country with a significant technological advantage. The primary activities of Israel’s space industry include satellite development, production, and operation, as well as the selling of communication services and remote sensing.
The Global Space Industry
Space has fascinated and perplexed humans since the beginning of time. Evidence stretches back to prehistory, and space and stars can be found in religions, mythology, cosmology, and astrology. Our basic existence is dependent on the stars, moon, and sun, and our calendars, days, seasons, and so on are all related to them and their cycle. From the period when people thought the earth was flat to now, especially in the last half-century, space exploration has made great advances forward, with some even talking about making humanity multi-planetary.
MCDI Earns Elta Systems, Ltd. Oustanding Supplier Award
On September 19, MCDI, Mini-Circuits’ exclusive rep and distributor in Israel, attended the Elta Systems Ltd. supplier conference where a dozen suppliers were called up on stage to receive awards for multiple categories. Among those honored suppliers was MCDI and by association, Mini-Circuits as a global organization, to receive the Supplier Excellence Award.
Mini-Circuits helps the Quantum Computing Revolution
Most applications for Mini-Circuits products fall within traditional markets for RF/microwave components: telecommunications, aerospace and defense, test and measurement instrumentation, CATV, and broadband optical networks. But at the outer frontiers of science and engineering, the newest and most innovative work tends to cross boundaries between disciplines. For example, some of the most advanced research in climatology stems from collaboration between meteorologists and mathematicians. Molecular biologists team up with computer scientists to develop new treatments for chronic diseases. Likewise, the race to build the world’s first useful quantum computer has drawn on applied knowledge from physics, computer science, and RF/microwave engineering. This revolutionary technology is among the more exotic applications of Mini-Circuits products and also one of the most advanced on the continuum of scientific progress.
A Primer on RF Semiconductors (MMICs)
A Primer on RF Semiconductors (MMICs) Radhakrishna Setty, Technical Advisor Introduction Semiconductors are ubiquitous in modern society. In addition to microprocessors for computing technologies, they are used in practically every active wireless communications system including cell phone towers, cell phones, radars and satellites to name a few. Mini-Circuits designs and produces several semiconductor-based (MMIC) components […]
How to save time with Programmable Attenuators
How to save time with Programmable Attenuators Hristo Grigorov – Applications Engineer, Mini-Circuits Israel – MCDI Performing sensitivity tests on RF receivers can be challenging, time-consuming, and prone to issues using the traditional method. To create the sensitivity test setup, you will usually need to create a physical separation between the transmitter and the receiver. […]
Understanding RF Power Amplifier Classes
Power amplifiers (PAs) boost input signals using different amplification schemes depending upon application requirements and the nature of the signals to be boosted. Signals may be continuous wave (CW) or many forms of pulsed waveforms, with different pulse widths and duty cycles. Different signal types have different amplification needs in terms of output power, gain, efficiency, linearity, and other performance parameters.
