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Astrium has completed the radar instrument for the Sentinel-1A environmental satellite and will deliver it to Thales Alenia Space (TAS) in Rome for installation on the satellite. The heart of the mission is the C-band SAR instrument built by Astrium.

RFMW Ltd. has opened direct sales offices in Russia. With locations in Moscow and St. Petersburg, the new sales organization will support customers in the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia, Georgia and Kazakhstan.

Astrium has delivered the proto-flight model of the microwave radiometer to the prime contractor, Thales Alenia Space, for installation on the Sentinel-3A satellite.

The Austrian Ministry of Defence has ordered six Tracker mini unmanned air systems. This contract was won by Survey Copter in cooperation with the Kapsch Group.

BAE Systems’ new 45 nm ASICs for space environments pack ten times more functionality and performance into the same size as current chips, without adding significant power needs.

Meet Experts, Make Friends was the motto for the 16th European Microwave Week that found a new home at the Nürnberg Convention Centre, NCC Ost from Sunday 6^th to Friday 11^th October. A higher number of unique delegates, along with exhibitors and visitors were able to discover that the beautiful city combines the culture, entertainment and history of a large metropolis, while affording the charm and warmth of a much smaller city. Whether in the conference sessions, workshops and short courses, on the exhibition floor or socialising at the Welcome Reception there was the opportunity to foster relationships, both professional and personal. This is a complete show summary.

NXP Semiconductors N.V. announced that the first product from the RoadLINK™ range, the SAF5100 flexible software-defined radio processor for C2C and C2I communication, is available for automotive customer design-in.

AWR Corp., the innovation leader in high-frequency electronic design automation (EDA), announces that NXP Semiconductor's ultra-wideband (UWB) Doherty reference design is now AWR Microwave Office design environment ready. The updated release features NXP’s BLF884P and BLF884PS transistors for ultra-wideband Doherty power amplifiers operating from 470 to 806 MHzand a 70 W DVB-T UWB LDMOS reference design using NXP’s patent-pending architecture capable of operating over an ultra-wideband spectrum in the UHF broadcast spectrum.

By the time that Agilent Technologies celebrated its tenth year as Platinum Sponsors of EuMW with the annual Welcome Reception at the Nuremberg Convention Centre, the record for the total number of unique delegates at European Microwave Week 2013 had been surpassed, backing up the unrivalled number of unique exhibiting companies demonstrating their latest innovations on the show floor.

Laird, a global technology company, announced it will attend European Microwave Week (EuMW), the largest microwave and radio frequency (RF) tradeshow in Europe. Laird will showcase ECCOSORB® and ECCOSTOCK® products and solutions for wireless and satellite communication, military and aerospace, automotive, medical and RFID markets. EuMW will take place October 8 through 10 in Nuremberg, Germany at the Nürnberg Convention Center. Laird will participate in the exhibition portion of the event and exhibit at booth #140.