Highly integrated and solderless LTCC based C-Band T/R Module

Abstract

This paper describes a C-Band T/R Module (TRM) developed by Thales Alenia Space Italia as element of the Electronic Front-End (EFE) for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) antenna developed for Sentinel-1 Program under the responsibility of the European Commission and the European Space Agency in the frame of the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES).