Handcrafted Vacuum Device Slows Satcom Deliveries
Credit: L-3 Communications
Traveling wave tubes and the process required to manufacture them have changed little over the past half-century. But these archaic vacuum-electron devices, known as TWTs, generate high-powered radio-frequency signals on some of the most advanced telecom satellites orbiting today. Over the years...
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