Anywaves

Core business

Since 2001, Anywaves Luxembourg, formerly Em Tronix, has been developing high-reliability electronics for Europe's most ambitious technological frontiers. What began as a specialist electronics company has grown into a key Luxembourg centre for space electronics, RF subsystems and payload technologies.

Today, Anywaves Luxembourg is part of the new Anywaves group, combining antennas, electronics and RF payload systems under one brand. From Hautcharage, we design, manufacture and test advanced onboard electronics, software-defined radios, RF chains, downlink systems and payload technologies for demanding satellite missions.

Our motto, "Space, unmuted," reflects this ambition: making space systems communicate, sense and perform with greater clarity, reliability and intelligence. As we look ahead, Anywaves Luxembourg will continue creating high-performance solutions that make space missions more capable, connected and accessible.

Products and services

Products

  • Software Defined Radio (SDR): Flexible, high-performance FPGA-based SDR platforms for advanced space communication, onboard processing and payload applications, adaptable to mission needs.

  • High-Speed Downlink: X-band and multi-band downlink solutions designed for large data transmissions between satellites, payloads and ground stations.

  • Low Frequency Radar: Innovative radar payload electronics capable of probing the internal structure of celestial bodies, supporting science and planetary defence missions.

  • Radio Frequency Chains: Precision-engineered RF front ends, LNAs, LNBs and SSPAs for optimal signal reception, conversion and transmission in demanding space environments.

  • Power and Payload Electronics: Custom modules such as LCLS, payload interfaces and power conditioning electronics for reliable spacecraft operations.

Services

  • Design and development of complex space electronics.

  • Develop RF transceivers, LNAs, converters and power amplifiers.

  • Advanced Digital Signal Processing, real-time software and rapid prototyping.

  • Custom FPGA system and IP design.

  • In-house automated SMT manufacturing and fast multilayer RF PCB prototyping.

  • Support for integrated antenna, RF and payload architectures within the wider Anywaves portfolio.

Technical means

  • Semi-automated production line, including SMT stencil paste dispenser, pick & place machines, vacuum vapour phase ovens, automated 3D optical inspection.
  • High-precision laser milling for PCB/filter prototyping, drying ovens, and dry storage cabinets.
  • Characterisation and testing equipment include vector network analysers (up to 24GHz), spectrum and signal analysers (up to 43GHz), RF arbitrary signal generators, high- and medium-speed digital storage oscilloscopes, noise sources, multi-channel electronic loads, battery simulators, thermal and climatic chambers, and TVAC.

 

Main customers

Anywaves Luxembourg serves European and global aerospace and satellite manufacturers, integrators, agencies and research organisations, including ESA, OHB, SES, Thales Alenia Space, Airbus, Redwire, CalTech, OIP, Kleos, GomSpace, LuxSpace, NSPA, IPAG and TUD.

As part of the new Anywaves group, the Luxembourg site supports customers across satellite communications, Earth observation, spectrum monitoring, navigation, science, exploration and defence-related missions.

Major space projects

Anywaves Luxembourg has played a pivotal role in several international space missions since 2008:

  • RCS-1 / RAMSES CubeSat Radar: Low Frequency Radar system to map asteroid Apophis' surface and internal structure.

  • JuRa HERA Juventas Radar: Radar payload electronics to map an asteroid's internal structure.

  • Triton-X: High-speed downlink and onboard computing for next-generation micro-sat platforms.

  • Proba-1 Autonomous Transceiver: SDR technology for autonomous Mars orbiter communication.

  • ALTIUS: Full ECSS-compliant electronics development of the optical mechanism motor drivers.

  • KLEOS: Control electronics for in-space antenna deployment and RF data collection.

  • Lunar Pathfinder 4M: Electronics integration for the first commercial satellite to orbit the Moon.

  • ScienceTax: Electronics and software supporting microgravity research facility development beyond the ISS.

  • VesselSat 1 & 2: Dual AIS receivers and advanced telemetry for global ship tracking.

  • Pathfinder 2: Electronics for AIS vessel data collection, marking the company's entry into space.

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