Redwire FALCCON High Gain Broadband Space Antenna
Redwire Corporation
Frequency Agile L-Band Core Common Node antenna delivering high-gain, broadband tactical comms, telemetry, and GNSS performance.
Technical specifications
- Peak gain (high-gain config)
- 21 dBic
- Peak gain (intermediate-gain config)
- 18.5 dBic
- Dimensions (high-gain)
- 80 x 80 x 38 cm
- Dimensions (intermediate-gain)
- 60 x 60 x 38 cm
- Mass
- <10 kg (excludes CFE gimbal)
- Bandwidth
- >24% of band
- Pointing
- Body-pointed or 2-axis gimbal (gimbal not included)
- Launch locks
- Included
- Connector
- PSM or TNC
- Design life
- >5 years
- Applications
- MIDS Link-16, GNSS, commercial COMMs, telemetry, radar, SIGINT
- Export control
- ECCN 7A104
About
FALCCON (Frequency Agile L-Band – Core Common Node) is Redwire’s scalable high-gain broadband space antenna, offered as a standard product for tactical communications, telemetry, navigation, and remote sensing. It is built from a common-core unit-cell ‘node’ that produces a gain-frequency curve suited to broadband applications; apertures can be scaled in physical size for link budget requirements and in frequency for different mission bands.
FALCCON apertures deliver equal power flux across a wide spectrum (24%+ bandwidth) by balancing antenna boresight gain against path loss over the operating band, while providing high power handling and high efficiency for sensitive uplinks. The variant documented here is tuned for L-Band tactical waveforms such as MIDS Link-16, and the portfolio also includes a wideband high-gain GNSS option.
The current lineup offers a high-gain 21 dBic configuration (80 x 80 x 38 cm) and an intermediate-gain 18.5 dBic configuration (60 x 60 x 38 cm, height excludes elevation structure and gimbal), both massing under 10 kg (excluding customer-furnished gimbal). The antenna can be edge-mounted to a nadir deck for a gimballed interface or direct-mounted for body-steered spacecraft, includes launch locks, supports body-pointed or 2-axis gimbal pointing, and is rated for a design life greater than 5 years. Applications include MIDS Link-16, GNSS, commercial communications, telemetry, radar, and SIGINT.
Documentation
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