Frontier Radio
Software defined radios for both near earth and deep space missions
The Frontier radio series by Rocket Lab is a flight-proven,
software-defined radio designed for reliable Telemetry, Tracking,
and Command. With an industry-leading compact footprint
and superior power efficiency, our Frontier radios deliver robust
performance even in the harshest space environments.
The radios are designed from the ground up for reliable and secure communications
to support any orbit or space environment and have advanced capabilities like ranging
waveforms for radiometric navigation. Frontier radios are compact and lightweight
for easy integration onto any satellite.
With over 13 years of flight heritage, Rocket Lab’s Frontier Radios
are available in L-, S-, C-, X-, and Ka-band models.
Frontier-S
Frontier-X
Frontier-C
Frontier-L
Frontier radios are flight-proven across a range of missions including Rocket Lab’s Photon
Pathstone, three Rocket Lab Pioneer spacecraft for Varda Space Industries, NASA’s
CAPSTONE, NASA’s Europa Clipper, NASA’s Solar Probe Plus, Emirates Mars, and Van
Allen Probes. Rocket Lab’s Frontier L-band radio will also be used for Viasat to support
their hybrid space communications network demonstrations
for NASA's Communications Services Project.
The Frontier Radio is a 2024 R&D 100 Award winner for its innovations
pushing the boundaries of research and development.