Bristol, March 15, 2018. Thales Alenia Space shipped today the broadband radiometer (BBR), a scientific instrument for the European Space Agency’s Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation Explorer (EarthCARE) satellite mission.
18,357 Thales’ traveling wave tubes have been launched into orbit since 1974. With 100,000 years of combined time in orbit, this technology today supports the majority of global communication uplinks.