Textile specialist Porcher Industries and Meggitt, an international company which makes components and sub-systems for the aerospace, defense and energy markets, have jointly developed a composite radome, a protective enclosure that protects a radar antenna for the SATCOM satellite.
Plans were to produce a composite material solution that would deliver high impact resistance and be able to allow tuning the dielectric constant (Dk) for improving 5G air-to-ground transmission. The composite material radome also required low permittivity and low loss tangent at GHz frequencies.
Porcher Industries developed a bespoke glass reinforced thermoplastic material for the base structural component.
This story is adapted from material from Porcher, with editorial changes made by Materials Today. The views expressed in this article do not necessarily represent those of Elsevier.
