At Satellite 2026, German company Aaronia AG—known for its expertise in real-time spectrum analysis and leadership in drone detection—captured attention with its latest product lineup.
The company once again stood out among trade visitors by presenting innovative technologies, including high-frequency waveguides designed to simplify waveguide measurement setups. It also showcased waveguide and coaxial connectors that can be mounted directly onto PCBs. Its solderless PCB connectors share identical footprints, making it easy to interchange screw and waveguide connectors as needed. These solutions currently support WR08, WR10, WR12, and WR15 waveguides, along with 1 mm and 1.85 mm coaxial connectors.
“Every detail plays a key role in the final quality of our products,” said Peter May, Head of Measurement Technology at Aaronia AG. “That’s why we focus on every component with great care, refining each element until it meets our high standards for producing what we believe are the world’s best ‘Made in Germany’ products.”
In addition, the Aaronia analyzers of the SPECTRAN V6 family once again caused a sensation, as they enable the digitization of enormous real-time bandwidths, offer impressive sweep speeds, and cover vast frequency ranges. The SPECTRAN V6 real-time spectrum analyzers of the XPR family, for example, with sweep speeds of >3 THz/s or real-time bandwidths up to 490 MHz—some equipped with state-of-the-art waveguide technology—impressed the technical audience at Satellite in Washington, D.C. The ease of analyzing high-frequency and rapidly changing signals in the microwave range, as well as their evaluation, was a resounding success, as was the model-dependent frequency range from 9 kHz to 140 GHz.
The 100XA-18 model from the SPECTRAM V6 ECO family features a frequency range of 9 kHz to 18 GHz and an RTBW of > 50 MHz. In addition, the already impressive standard sweep speed of approximately 500 GHz/s can be increased to over 3 THz/s via a software license—all through a single USB 3.1 port. “The analyzers demonstrated their strengths particularly in the X and Ku bands, which are used for military and commercial applications such as SatCom,” adds May. “For the first time, we were able to demonstrate the SPECTRAN V6 MOBILE 100TA-18 device, based on our proprietary tablet PC, to an interested audience of industry professionals. It is the world’s first portable real-time spectrum analyzer with a sweep speed of well over 1.5 THz/s at an 18 GHz span. Trade visitors were enthusiastic about this portable, high-performance solution for monitoring and geolocating high-frequency signals in the 18-GHz range. The SPECTRAN V6 MOBILE 100TA-18 solves a fundamental problem in satellite communications: the simple detection of interference during live operation of the ground station.”
Similarly, the new AARTOS direction-finding solutions caused quite a stir, such as the AARTOS DF9 solution based on IsoLOG and the SPECTRAN V6 Command Center. The combination of a high-performance direction-finding antenna array, an extremely high-performance multi-receiver processing unit, and the powerful RTSA-Suite PRO PC software creates a DF (direction-finding) system capable of reliably detecting and locating any signal over distances of several kilometers. A network of systems enables the geolocation of every signal within the respective system’s reception range, which is also available for C-, X-, and Ku-band.
