Payload Engineering Section
RF payloads for telecom, navigation and RF remote sensing instruments
About RF payloads
The section domain covers RF payloads/instruments for telecom, navigation and Earth Observation/ remote sensing applications.
Responsibilities
The section’s responsibilities include:
- In coordination with other sections and TIA, definition, evaluation and promotion of advanced concepts for RF payloads for future telecom missions.
- Collaboration with equipment and antenna sections on the assessment of new technologies for future telecom payloads
- Support, on payload aspects to telecom mission projects
- Contribution, in coordination with navigation, equipment and antenna sections and D/NAV to the definition, evaluation and promotion of advanced navigation payloads for future evolutions of GALILEO and EGNOS missions.
- Support to GALILEO and EGNOS projects, on the area of navigation payload and signal in space performance.
- Promotion, in coordination with Earth Observation directorate of advanced new concepts for RF sensing instruments ( i.e. SAR, altimeters, scatterometers, radiometers, GNSS-R…)
- Support to EO projects on the area of microwave instruments
- Development and maintenance of software tools for payload and remote sensing instruments, for both internal R&D and support to projects.