South African high-data-rate satellite communication subsystems manufacturer CUBECOM, which specialised in the nanosatellite (“CubeSat”) and microsatellite markets, was celebrating the fact that the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) had identified its products as some of the fastest commercially available transmitters for these categories of satellites. It did so in the latest edition of the “Nasa State-of-the-Art Report”. “We are in the boom now,” highlighted CUBECOM Chief Technology Officer Sampie Booysen. Over the past 12 months the company, part of the Alphawave Group, had increased its workforce by 100%. With expanded production capacity it has widened its product range and could now offer a wide selection of Ka-band, S-band and X-band antennas, transmitters and downconverters for the commercial space sector. Its’ flagship product was its Microsatellite High Data Rate Transmitter (µHDRTX).
