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Via Satellite Interview with Jin Bains at SATShow 2026

by minicircuitsadmin | Mar 25, 2026 | Industry Insights, News, Space, Videos

Mini-Circuits’ CEO, Jin Bains caught up with Rachel Jewett from ‪Via Satellite at SATShow Week 2026 in Washington DC on Tuesday, March 24 to talk about the satellite market for RF and microwave products and how Mini-Circuits is supporting the growing range of...

SATCOM Shifts Reference Frequency from 10 to 100 MHz – A System Perspective

by jacquelineh96 | Dec 15, 2025 | Bias Tees, Engineering Resources, Space

Higher SATCOM Data Throughput Requires Cleaner References and LOs Over the last decade, the satellite communications (SATCOM) industry has been evolving to support both wider channel bandwidths (BWs) and higher order modulations such as higher order quadrature...

Earth Station to Orbit

by Rinchen Athup | Mar 24, 2023 | Engineering Resources, Product Updates, Space

DC to mmWave Satellite System Parts In-House Space Upscreening & More With 30+ years of experience supporting the unique requirements of the satellite industry, Mini-Circuits offers an extensive selection of off-the-shelf components for almost every block in your...

NASA’s Helicopter, Ingenuity, Uses RF Technology to Explore Mars from a Different Perspective

by minicircuitsadmin | May 20, 2021 | Industry Insights, Space

Jacqueline Hochheiser, Corporate Communications In a historic interplanetary feat, NASA’s Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, successfully performed the first powered flight on another planet. Ingenuity embarked on a journey to Mars aboard the Perseverance rover in hopes of...

The RF Systems Powering Scientific Study of Climate Change

by minicircuitsadmin | Apr 22, 2021 | Mini-Circuits Life, Space

Brandon Kaplan, Corporate CommunicationsMichael Sullivan, Mechanical Engineer, Test Solutions Increases in the frequency and severity of extreme weather events as well as mounting public debate about the causes and effects of climate change have underscored the need...

Mini-Circuits Helps Pioneer New Remote Soil Sensing Technology in NASA’s SNoOPI Mission

by minicircuitsadmin | Sep 15, 2020 | Mini-Circuits Life, Space

Jacqueline Hochheiser, Corporate Communications In January 2021, NASA will launch an exciting satellite prototype called SNoOPI (Signals of Opportunity P-band Investigation) that will be the first of its kind to detect root zone soil moisture (RZSM) from space....