The School of Engineering and Digital Arts is delighted to be collaborating with Printech Circuit Laboratories, providing them with Microwave antenna test facilities in our anechoic chamber for antennas which will be eventually flown into deep space on a mission to Mars.
Printech Circuit Laboratories produces specialist circuitry and circuit boards for the space industry and have been collaborating with the School of Engineering and Digital Arts on a scheme whereby the School provides them with microwave antenna test facilities and in exchange, they are manufacturing very high spec PCB based antennas for our antennas research group.
The antennas are made at Printech’s headquarters in Essex, tested in Kent and then flown to Mars!