CAMARILLO, CA - The Lucix Corporation today announced that it has been awarded a contract to build flight High Power Q-Band Dielectric Resonator Oscillators (HPDROs) for the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) payload that is being built at Northrop Grumman for the NPOES system.

The Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) collects atmospheric data to permit the calculation of global atmospheric temperature, and water vapor profiles. The HPDRO Units provide frequency reference for the subsystem. Lucix’s proprietary microwave technologies allow for exceptional performance on key requirements such as ultra-low phase noise, very high frequency stability, low mass, small size, and minimum DC power consumption.
About the ATMS Program -- The ATMS sensor is one of several included on the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS). The NPOESS will converge existing polar-orbiting satellite systems under a single national program. The program is managed by the tri-agency Integrated Program Office (IPO) utilizing personnel from the Department of Commerce, Department of Defense and NASA (www.ipo.noaa.gov).

About Lucix -- The Lucix Corporation, an AS9100B and ISO9001:2000 registered supplier of Space and Military RF units and sub-systems, develops and manufacturers innovative Microwave and Millimeter-wave hardware utilized in wireless broadband communication, SatCom and radar systems for the Space, Military and Commercial Markets.
Lucix is headquartered in Camarillo, CA. For more information please visit www.lucix.com.