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Designing for Interplanetary Exploration

October 14, 2024

An artist’s concept of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft.

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Developing technology for space is challenging. Developing technology for interplanetary space requires stratospheric skills. At Benchmark Lark Technology (Lark), we embrace challenges, and nothing showcases our...

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Filtering Key Needs for Millimeter Wave SATCOM

September 10, 2024

In the September 4th edition of everythingRF, Benchmark’s Technical Business Development Executive, Art Aguayo, discusses the transformative role of satellites in bolstering high-data-rate networks through the exploitation of millimeter-wave frequency bands in his article, “Filtering Key Needs for...

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Collaborating Toward Advanced Robotic Military Combat Vehicles—It Takes a Village

April 26, 2024

At the 2024 Association of the United States Army (AUSA) event in Huntsville, Alabama, military leaders and industry experts gathered to address the multifaceted challenges of developing robotic military combat vehicles. With a keen focus on sustainable technologies in contested environments,...

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Center of Excellence for RF Filters and Components — Tijuana, Mexico

October 9, 2023

Welcome to our blog series on Benchmark’s Centers of Excellence. Our Centers of Excellence represent locations within our worldwide network that have critical skills, knowledge, resources, training, and certifications surrounding a key technology area or technical competency. This blog series...

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Sixth-Generation Networks — Pushing New Boundaries

August 10, 2023

As the world welcomes Fifth Generation (5G) wireless networks and technology, the engineers at Benchmark are readying for what lies ahead in Sixth Generation (6G) networks. In a new article, “Sixth Generation Networks Push New Boundaries”, appearing in the digital editions of Electronic Design and ...

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RF Testing in Manufacturing

June 13, 2023

To say that wireless devices are ubiquitous in our society today would be a vast understatement. In fact, sometimes it seems like wire is only used today for fencing livestock and stringing guitars. The same is true for the use of wire for communications and connectivity—it is diminishing rapidly.

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Making RF Components Smaller and Lighter

April 15, 2023

In an article titled “Miniaturising Radio Frequency Components Using Advanced Circuit Fabrication Methodologies” published in its April 2023 issue, Commercial Micro Manufacturing International (CMM) walks us through how the engineering team at Benchmark Lark Technology have created RF module...

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Planning for 5G on the Battlefield

November 3, 2022

Several members of Benchmark’s Aerospace and Defense team offered their thoughts on the coming of 5G wireless communications networks—but not for their hometowns, for the military battlefield. The U. S. Armed Forces are investing heavily in Fifth Generation (5G) wireless technology as the future...

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How to Specify and Select RF Filters for A&D Systems

October 19, 2022

RF filters are critical components in aerospace & defense (A&D) systems and must be specified for optimum system performance. The right RF filters can screen out interference signals while channeling desired signals to a system’s receivers with minimal loss and distortion. But RF filter...

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Meeting the Challenges of Unmanned Aerial System Threat Proliferation

October 17, 2022

While ubiquitous and advancing forms of high-speed connectivity devices have affected almost all aspects of everyday lives, highly advanced and highly available Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) are becoming just as universal across the frontlines of security and defense. In addition to their use by...

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RF Filters Make Radar Altimeters Safe to Use with Nearby 5G Towers

July 8, 2022

Wireless 5G cellular communications networks are gobbling up bandwidth as people use more and more mobile data. Unfortunately, some of the frequency bands near 5G spectrum are already used at C-band by radar altimeters on commercial and military aircraft. Fortunately, Benchmark Lark has a solution...

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Filtering the Way to Safer 5G Near Airports

March 16, 2022

Frequency spectrum has long been taken for granted, from the early days of tuning an amplitude-modulated (AM) radio to a favorite sports or news program to making a call on a mobile telephone. Communication happens because radio waves travel across the air from sources to destinations without...

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