Component Crunch Slows Delivery Of Ka-band Communications Sats

摘要

A severe shortage of a key component in high-powered telecommunications satellites intended for television and Internet services will slow satellite deliveries by several months for the foreseeable future, industry officials said.The supply bottleneck for the component in question, the Ka-band traveling wave tube (TWT), is being exacerbated by the fact that there are only two companies deemed reliable providers, L3 Communications of New York and Thales of France.