Space Qualified RF Amplifiers and RF Filters for satellite, cubesats, SATCOM, and communication systems. NuWaves RF Solutions provides Space Qualified RF Products, RF Solutions, and New Space ready hardware designed to perform in the most demanding environments. From COTS products to fully custom designs, NuWaves delivers mission ready performance with proven heritage and rapid-turn development.
Spacecraft are moving more mission data across LEO, MEO, GEO, and cislunar architectures than ever before. Reliable data relay, payload downlinks, and SATCOM links depend on RF front ends, SSPAs, LNAs, converters, and filtering that can perform across demanding mission environments.
TT&C and Mission Communications
Telemetry, tracking, and command links are the lifeline of a spacecraft. S-band, X-band, UHF, and C-band communication paths help maintain command authority, spacecraft health monitoring, ground station connectivity, and mission operations from launch through end of life.
Missile Warning, Tracking, and Defense
Missile defense architectures depend on speed, timing, and trusted data paths. Space-based sensing, tracking, telemetry, command links, Ka-band communications, S-band backup TT&C, and test systems all require RF hardware that can keep pace with fast-moving defense programs.
Space Domain Awareness and Recon
GEO surveillance, proximity operations, satellite inspection, and orbital reconnaissance require spacecraft that can observe, maneuver, communicate, and report back with confidence. Compact RF amplifiers, LNAs, filters, converters, and front-end modules help support command, telemetry, and mission data transfer in complex orbital environments.
Lunar and Cislunar Infrastructure
The Moon is becoming an operating environment, not just a destination. Lunar rovers, landers, relay satellites, payloads, and future surface systems will need LunaNet-aligned RF links, including S-band proximity communications, X-band direct-to-Earth paths, Ka-band data links, diplexers, filters, and lunar RF front ends.
Exploration, Manufacturing, and Re-Entry Operations
Deep space science missions, orbital manufacturing platforms, return vehicles, and re-entry operations each bring unique RF challenges. These systems need dependable telemetry, payload data links, command paths, rugged RF amplifiers, filtering, and mission-specific hardware built around performance, speed, and reliability.
From RF products to custom designs and expert analysis, NuWaves helps space customers move faster with mission-specific hardware and engineering support.
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Space RF Products
Solid State Power Amplifiers
Low Noise Amplifiers
Bi-Directional Amplifiers
RF Filters and Diplexers
Multiplexers and Triplexers
Frequency Converters
Integrated RF Front Ends
S-band, X-band, C-band, L-band, UHF, and Ka-band solutions
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Custom Design
COTS to space adaptation
Custom PA and LNA development
Custom filter and multiplexer designs
Integrated transmit and receive chains
High power RF design
Compact SWaP focused packaging
Thermal and mechanical design support
Radiation Tolerant Designs
RF architecture and link budget support
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RF Architecture, Test, and Space Readiness
RF architecture and link budget support
Radio, antenna, amplifier, filter, and converter trade studies
Space communications hardware selection
In-house TVAC testing capability
Multipaction analysis for high power RF designs
RF performance testing and design validation
EMI / EMC design considerations and test support
Vibration, shock, thermal, and environmental testing
TID, SEE, and NDD requirement review and radiation test coordination
Mission specific RF risk reduction before build, test, or flight
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Rapid Mission Support
Quick turn product modifications
Engineering units and prototype builds
Qualification and flight unit planning
Test hardware and ground support equipment
Rapid RFQ and ROM support
Production transition support
Space program documentation support
Direct engineering collaboration
Flight Heritage
Space Proven
Flight and environmental heritage across re-entry, LEO, cislunar, lunar and deep-space RF missions in both complex and high-power designs.
Speed
Built for Fast Programs
Reduced lead times, quick-turn designs, and expertise to help fast-moving programs get from requirement to hardware without waiting on traditional aerospace timelines.
SWaP
Optimized for the Edge
Miniature, power-efficient modules built for platforms where every gram and watt counts.
COTS & Mission Specific
Ready to Go Hardware
Existing COTS to Modified modules, ruggedized, or customized around mission-specific frequency bands, power levels, interfaces, environments, and schedules.
Project Highlights
COREPOWER™
Developed under a NASA SBIR, COREPOWER is a coupled resonator power combiner technology designed to combine multiple GaN SSPA modules into a compact, low loss architecture for high power space RF systems. With power handling above 2 kW, high combining efficiency, and advanced multipaction modeling, COREPOWER supports next generation radar, propulsion, and high power RF applications where efficiency, reliability, and scalability matter.
>2 kW peak power handling
95–98% combining efficiency
40–60 dBc harmonic suppression
Demonstrated L-band 1 kW SSPA at >60% PAE
Scalable 2-way, 3-way, 4-way, and 5-way and beyond combiner architecture
NuPower Xtender™ SCISR-20
The NuPower Xtender™ SCISR-20 Tri-Band Bidirectional Amplifier is a 20-watt amplifier intended to simplify subsystem architecture with a compact form-factor offering in-band and cross-band bidirectional communication for improved link margin. Built around a GaN RF design, SCISR-20 delivers compact transmit and receive capability for LEO communications, TT&C, ISR, datalink, and space-focused RF applications, with environmental test heritage including thermal vacuum, neutron displacement damage, and total ionizing dose testing.
Tri-band L/S/C-band bidirectional amplifier
20 W-class L/S-band and 10 W-class C-band output
Successful TVAC testing below 1 × 10⁻⁵ Torr in full operation
NDD and TID tested to representative LEO mission levels
16 dB receive gain L/S-band and 12.8 dB receive gain in C-band
1000 to 5100 MHz operating frequency
TANGO™ GPS III Triplexer
Developed for the Air Force Research Laboratory, TANGO™ is a high-power GPS III triplexer designed to combine, isolate, and filter the L1, L2, and L5 navigation channels after power amplification onboard satellite payloads. Built for wide bandwidth, low insertion loss, high input isolation, and high-power operation in vacuum, TANGO demonstrates NuWaves’ ability to design space-focused RF filtering and multiplexing hardware for demanding mission environments.
800 W per channel with no multipactor events observed during full-power vacuum testing
L1 / L2 / L5 GPS III triplexer architecture for satellite navigation payloads
Less than 0.5 dB insertion loss at center frequency
High harmonic rejection up to 6 GHz
Space-qualified vented mechanical design for high-power RF operation
High selectivity, 6-pole cross-coupled design for steep rejection skirts
Business Development Manager Space Systems Lead
Dan Williams
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