RF & Microwave sources for professional applications
Thales is the world’s leading supplier of traveling wave tubes for
satellites and other spacecraft. Our TWTs are an integral part of the
transponders used in most commercial and military applications:
navigation, radio & television broadcasting, military and
commercial data transmissions, Internet, Earth and planetary
observation.
More than half of all images and data transmitted
worldwide go through a Thales tube. Tubes by Thales have been chosen
for a majority of space programs worldwide, and have already passed the
mark of 400 million hours of operation in orbit.