Engineering
Services

Satellite Earth Station System Engineering

• Prepare RFPs for Turnkey Earth Station Procurement
  
• Evaluate Turnkey Proposals for Satellite Earth Terminals
  
• Prepare Proposals for Satellite Earth Terminals
  
• Prepare GCE (Ground Comm Equip) Hardware Design and/or Procurement
  Specifications
  
• Prepare/Witness/Perform GCE Test Procedures
  
• Prepare Satellite System Hardware and Propagation Availability Analysis
  
• Prepare end-to-end link budget designs and trade-off studies
  
• Prepare parametric distortion analysis for uplink and downlink signal path chains
  

Research and Analysis

• Prepare Technical White Papers
  
• Market Research and Reports
  
• Competitive Analysis
  
• Provide guidance for Product Development Road Maps
  
• Provide guidance for Business Plan Development
  

Technical and Sales Support

• Meet directly with Customers present solutions and/or determine Customer needs
  
• Coach and Train Sales Personnel
  
• Provide specialized training to Client’s Engineering Staff
  
• Provide on-site Sales Technical Support for proposal presentations
  

Field Support

• On-Site Testing and Troubleshooting
  
• Site Survey and Site Design
  

Technical Analyses

• Installation procedure emulation, and pointing accuracy uplink interference
  simulation
  
• Prediction of signal distortion in high-power amplifier and transmission chains
  
• Satellite link budgets, rain fade and availability analysis, diversity gain estimations
  
• Earth station antenna and HPA sizing
  
• Cascaded lineup design, noise figure, dynamic range, spurious, and worst case
  analyses
  

Design and Management Support

• Evaluation of microwave subsystem design reviews
  
• Capital and recurring cost analyses of satellite links and networks
  
• Customer specification compliance reviews
  
• Proposal generation support
  
• Specifications and statements of work for suppliers
  
• Production readiness reviews
  
• Cross-disciplinary technical support
  
• Cost analyses
  
• Design review support
  

Tools

• Matlab; Macromedia Flash; LINC (small-signal RF circuit analysis); MS Office
  (Word/Excel/PowerPoint)
  
• Extensive collection of utilities for microwave and satellite system analysis
  

Programming

• Flash ActionScript
  
• Matlab
  
• Excel VBA add-ins
  
• Java