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Team Experience

Member: Fernando Aguirre.  Lead RF Engineer and Founder.

Space RF Hardware Deliverables at Integral Microwave: 

  • Various SmallSat RF modules on Satellites and supporting customer deliverables for space application projects.  Including frequency converters, Radar LNAs, Communications SSPA and LNAs, complete Radar RF assemblies.

 

Successful Space Missions prior to Integral Microwave: 

  • Mars Cube One (MarCO)

  • NISAR Ka-Band Exciter (launch year: 2023)

  • Mars 2020

  • Mars Science Laboratory

  • ISARA Cubesat

  • INSPIRE Cubesat (launch TBD)

  • ISS RapidScat

  • GRAIL 

Relevant Publications:

  1. “Miniaturized and Reconfigurable RF Electronics Architecture for SmallSat Applications” IEEE Aerospace Conference, March 2020.  Recipient of Best Paper Award in pertinent track. Aguirre, F.

  2. “The Iris Deep-Space Transponder for the SLS EM-1 Secondary Payloads,” IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, 2019.  Kobayashi, M., Holmes, S., Yarlagadda, A., Aguirre, F., Chase, M., Angaska, K., Burgett, B., McNally, L., Dobreva, T., Satorius, E.

  3. “The ISARA Mission – Flight Demonstration of a High Gain Ka-Band Antenna for 100Mbps Telecom,” Proceedings of the 32nd Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites, 2018.  Hodges, R., Lewis, D., Radway, M., Toorian, A., Aguirre, F., Hoppe, D., Shah, B., Gray, A.

  4. “High-Rate Ka-Band Modulator for the NISAR Mission,” Proceedings of the IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2018.  Pugh, M., Kuperman, I., Kobayashi, M., Aguirre, F., Kilzer, M., Spurgers, C.

  5. “High Density Packaging Technologies for RF Electronics in Small Spacecraft,” Proceedings of the IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2017.  Aguirre, F., Schatzel, D.

  6. “The Universal Space Transponder: A Next Generation Software Defined Radio,” Proceedings of the IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2017.  Pugh, M., Kuperman, I., Aguirre, F., Mojaradi, H., Spurgers, C., Kobayashi, M., Satorius, E., Jedrey, T.,

  7. “X-Band Electronics for the INSPIRE Cubesat Deep Space Radio,” Proceedings of the IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2015.  Aguirre, F.H.

  8. “Ka-Band Tone Generator for the ISARA Cubesat,” Proceedings of the IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2015.  Aguirre, F., Custodero, B., Shah, B.

  9. “Iris Transponder – Communications and Navigation for Deep Space,” Proceedings of the 28th Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites, 2014.  Duncan, C.B., Smith, A.E., Aguirre, F.H.

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