Lunar and Deep Space
As international momentum builds around NASA’s Artemis program, ESA initiatives, and the growing community of Artemis Accord nations, the need for high bandwidth, high resilience deep-space communication is becoming critical.
Meeting The Challenge Of Deep Space Communications
Lunar and interplanetary missions demand extraordinary signal stability across hundreds of thousands – sometimes millions – of kilometres, where every fraction of a decibel matters and latency is measured in seconds. To meet these challenges, a new generation of terrestrial gateway ground stations is emerging, blending government and commercial infrastructure to sustain continuous visibility between Earth and the lunar frontier.
Next-Gen Deep-Space Ground Stations
Deep-space gateways rely on high-power transmission systems, large-aperture antennas, precision timing, and exceptionally stable RF signal chains. Technologies developed for GEO, MEO, and LEO networks are being re-engineered to withstand the extreme demands of Ka-band and other high-frequency deep-space links.
High-Stability RF Infrastructure
This includes cleaner and more efficient uplink amplifiers, modular RF matrices for intelligent routing and redundancy, and high-stability frequency converters that maintain signal integrity over long distances and temperature variations. Increasingly, these stations incorporate built-in test and calibration tools to verify performance without interrupting mission operations.
The invisible backbone
ETL Systems is applying decades of expertise in broadcast, defence, and commercial satcoms to support this new deep-space ecosystem. Our developments in high-power X- and K-band amplification, advanced RF distribution and switching, and precision frequency-conversion and fibre-transport technologies are engineered to deliver the reliability, resilience, and signal purity required for lunar and interplanetary communication.
As the world prepares for sustained operations on and around the Moon, these ground-segment innovations form the invisible backbone – ensuring every rover command, scientific dataset, and crew communication reaches its destination across the vast silence of space.
Featured products
Deployed in deep space gateways around the world.
VTRC-100-XXXX-2408
VICTOR 24x8 combining matrix
850-2450MHz extended L-band range, with variable gain
VTRC-101-1616
VICTOR 16x16 combining matrix
850-2450MHz extended L-band range, with variable gain
NSN-103
ENSIGN 32x32 FIFO matrix
500-3150MHz extended L-band range, with variable gain
FN-U-K4L1-24403AA
L-band to Ka-band block upconverter
Falcon2 frequency converter for modular GENUS ecosystem; 1150-2150MHz to 27-31GHz
FN-D-K4L1-24425AB
Ka-band to L-band block downconverter
Falcon2 frequency converter for modular GENUS ecosystem; 27.0-31.0GHz to 950-1950MHz
SRY-G1S-TS2-179
STINGRAY RF over Fibre L-band Tx module
For use with modular GENUS ecosystem; 850-2450MHz range, 1U module
SRY-G1S-RS2-180
STINGRAY RF over Fibre L-band Rx module
For use with modular GENUS ecosystem; 850-2450MHz range, 1U module
TLT-D-K4KX-1024
Ka-band to K-band test loop translator
For use with modular GENUS ecosystem, Ka-band to K-band with variable attenuation
Engineered for Reliable RF Performance
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