Custom RF for your mission

MWSE offers its RF design expertise to support custom developments for each customer needs. MWSE key space projects are:

• 6GStarLab Multi-Frequency Payload: MWSE is contributing a state-of-the-art RF payload to 6GStarLab, Europe’s first open 6G research in-orbit laboratory. Developed with i2CAT under the 6GSatNet project, this flexible software-defined radio (SDR) payload (nicknamed “Minerva”) featuring UHF, L-, S-, X-, and Ka-band communication frequency bands to enable in-orbit testing of future 6G non-terrestrial network (NTN) communications.

• GNSS-Reflectometer, the FSSCat mission RF Front-End: Developed the radio-frequency front-end for ESA’s FSSCat (3Cat-5/A) nanosatellite mission, which combined an L-band microwave radiometer and a GNSS-Reflectometer in one compact payload. This dual-purpose sensor suite enabled the 6U CubeSat to map soil moisture and sea-ice thickness from orbit, demonstrating MWSE’s ability to miniaturize advanced Earth observation instruments.

• GASPER Galileo Space Receiver: In a European Horizon 2020 consortium led by Deimos Space, MWSE is co-developing the Galileo Space ReceivER (GASPER) – a low-cost, NewSpace GNSS receiver to validate next-generation Galileo navigation services in orbit. This in-orbit demonstrator will test real-time precise orbit determination using Galileo’s new high-accuracy signals (E6 band), showcasing MWSE’s expertise in spaceborne GPS/Galileo receiver design.