1 of 3 Waves of Change In 2006, Todd McNeill, veteran SATCOM engineer, founded Eclipse Composites in his garage. McNeill’s can-do company has been growing steadily ever since. Composite SATCOM antenna manufacturing is a unique and lucrative corner of the market. It’s also a very evolutionary business – things change, and change quickly. “When we started, we were dealing with the X and Ku band and low .020”-.030” Root Mean Square (RMS) tolerances.” says Leikam. RMS is a measurement of a surface’s deviations versus its nominal or theoretical shape as defined by the CAD model. Leikam continues, “Along comes the KA band, which is a more focused beam on a higher frequency ... that’s where the tighter tolerances became critical for us to achieve, specifically because surface deviati

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