Norsat International, a provider of unique and customized communication solutions for remote and challenging applications, has announced that it has received an order for $3.8 million from Harris Corporation for its compact and efficient ATOM series Solid State Power Amplifiers (SSPAs).
Norsat has been working closely with Harris since 2013, in order to develop and deliver custom SSPAs to meet the challenging RF performance requirements for linearity, gain flatness and phase matching that is required by the Harris system. This contract is for the second phase of the project that Norsat first announced in October 2013 and April 2014 after the successful implementation of the SSPAs.
Norsat is a subcontractor to Harris to provide Ku-Band SSPAs for a system that upconverts and amplifies L-Band composite signals. Each Harris system replaces nine large racks of legacy equipment with an array of twenty-four 100 Watt Ku-band ATOM SSPAs. Norsat and Harris have worked closely together over the past several years to develop and deliver this custom ATOM SSPA which replaced a legacy TWTA system. The end result is a system that offers smaller size, lower power consumption, better heat dissipation, and greater reliability.
Harris chose the Norsat ATOM series SSPAs due to its compact size, remote control capability and low lifecycle costs which were key differentiators. As well, the unique phase matching of the ATOM SSPA allows Harris to design hot-swap capability.
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