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;
- Adobe Flash CS Collection;
- Adobe Flashbuilder;
- LINC (small-signal RF circuit analysis);
- MS Office (Word/Excel/PowerPoint)
- Extensive collection of utilities for microwave and satellite system analysis
Programming
- Flash ActionScript AS3
- Flex Programming
- Javascript
- Jquery
- Html5
- Matlab
- Excel
- VBA add-ins
- Java