To the Moon? Well, into space at least. It’s always been a dream of mine to travel into space, although sadly I don’t believe it will ever become a reality. However, what I can do is be part of the space industry and see our cables taken into space.

Working in such a prestigious field requires the very best connectors on earth. Literally! Enter Radiall, world renowned for quality and high-performance.

Let’s face it if you are making a product that is being sent into outer space you need to know the materials you are working with are fully approved and designed to work in such extreme environments.

Radiall have designed a series of connectors and cable assemblies specifically designed for space.

Offering a complete range of space-qualified low-loss flexible coaxial cable assemblies with SMA, SMA 2.9, TNC, Very High Power TNC or SMP connector, up to 40 GHz.

Using this technology guarantees the best performance depending on the selected variant: lightweight, low loss, high flexibility and high power.

In terms of connectors, Radiall’s space offering includes a wide range of coaxial connectors with a frequency range up to Ka band. This includes, SMA, SMA 2.9 and Very High Power TNC connectors that are ESA qualified, TNC and SMP/SMP-LOCK connectors which are EPPL.

Space industry

The thing that excites me more than anything else is that working as part of the space industry is an opportunity to be the very best of the best, where nothing less than excellent is the minimum.

There is nothing special about the people who work in the space industry apart from their burning desire to create products that just don’t fail, which is more about personal integrity than being clever, in my view.

We can all adopt this mentality no matter what industry we work in – it’s about ask asking, each day, how can I do better? And that’s all that putting thing in space is about!

Nick Lock, Nicab Ltd