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