Space Ka- band traveling wave tubes- trend data of a successful and efficient production

The trend data in the diagram can demonstrate that the Ka-Band production support the high performances data of the development and even more showing a very stable production of a large number of tubes within one family. Thales is still ongoing in the development of the performances improvement as well for higher power Ka-Band TWTs up to 200 W and for very small high efficient Ka-Band Tubes for small feed array antennas. On top the high number of delivered tubes underlines the qualification status of the design given such stable performances data.