RECON RF, INC. — National Aeronautics and Space Administration SBIR Phase I: S11
RECON RF, INC. — SBIR Phase I award from National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
- Amount
- $166,451
- Agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- S11
- Solicitation
- SBIR_23_P1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- CA
- Period
- 2023-07-19 → 2024-02-02
Description
bull;In support of NASArsquo;s Ecosystems SAR (EcoSAR) Mission, which is to enable unprecedented two- and three-dimensional fine scale measurements of terrestrial ecosystem and biomass, this project will develop a state-of-the-art (SOA) UHF Band monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) Power-Amplifier for the EcoSAR instrumentrsquo;s 32 radar electronics units. This project will significantly advance Power Added Efficiency beyond present day commercial off the shelf offerings operating on the UHF Band, and specifically 335-535 MHz, achieving a TRL 3-4 MMIC power amplifier with over 25 Watts output power, power added efficiency (PAE) of greater than 70%, and power gain of over 35 dB with less than 1 dB gain flatness over the band; consistent with the requirements of EcoSAR. This UHF-band GaN MMIC SSPAnbsp;performance will benbsp;at the very forefront of present-day technology. The efficiency advantages resulting from this projectrsquo;s custom developed gt;70% PAE UHF MMIC 25-watt power amplifiers will be multiplied across 32 polarimetric (dual) transmit/receive (T/R) modules which reside inside the aircraft fuselage within a radar electronics unit (REU).