SPEAKER INTERVIEW
Dr. Ing. Dhamia Almozani - Principal RF Development Engineer, VITES GmbH
Please could you tell us more about your role as Principal RF Development Engineer at VITES?
My role in Vites is focused on, but not limited to, the technical management of the RF development team and cross-department technical supporting toward a shared company goal across team lines (sales, system engineering, FPGA team , SW and HW team).
How have you seen antenna technology improve and develop over the last five years?
Electronically Steered Flat Panel array antennas for fixed and mobility applications have started to establish in the market, in particular for low-Earth orbit (LEO) connectivity. The best performance and lowest power consumption is achieved when low-noise LNAs are available for an optimised G/T. Further, new architectures have appeared that are using a higher level of semiconductor integration that drives cost and power consumption down. Overall SATCOM network performance and the cost efficiency of the User Terminals (UTs) can be improved drastically by performing a co-design of the space segment SATCOM-equipment and the UTs, i.e. by positioning the link budget in the sweet spot of UT cost/power/performance.
You will join us as a presenter on the topic of SATCOM on the move – how is the demand of antennas for industries such as mobility changing and what does that mean for antenna developers?
Flat Panel Antennas for mobility applications must get smaller, more cost efficient and less power hungry. VITES addresses these requirements with our new ASIC based architecture. UT-products using this architecture will be introduced to the market in 2026 and will be positioned in the sweet spot of performance / price / power. There will be derivatives for Ku- as well as Ka-Band connectivity.
What do you consider the most promising technology for the space industry in the years to come?
We see the largest growth potential in the areas of SATCOM (including ‘on-the-Move’ applications) and Earth observation. Being a supplier of UTs for SATCOM, we see huge potential offering cost and power efficient connectivity for any kind of vehicle complementary to cellular 5G/6G-connectivity, mid-term including Automotive.
If you could travel anywhere into space, without the restrictions of time and resources, where would you go, how will you travel there, and why?
I was always thinking what happened when one gets into a black hole where the 4-dimension spacetime exists. Difficult to answer is how to reach and react with a still mysterious object where our knowledge sits idle in front of it.