SpaceX’s Starlink ‘Direct-to-Cellular’ (D2C) telephony system is being tested in New Zealand. Ben Longmier, SpaceX’s Senior director, satellite engineering, has confirmed the activity, saying the trials are being conducted with […]
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Azercosmos and Czech company Pekasat SE’s Memorandum of Cooperation expands using ground stations for LEO satellite operations
A memorandum of cooperation has been signed between Azercosmos and the Czech company “PEKASAT SE.” This memorandum aims to expand new business opportunities by mutually using ground stations for low-orbit […]
Descartes Labs Government accelerates mission-ready solutions with EarthDaily constellation EO data
Descartes Labs and its subsidiary, Descartes Labs Government, has selected EarthDaily Analytics as a supplier for their EO data to power their geospatial analytics and AI solutions. EarthDaily’s Constellation will unlock […]
Warpspace is NEDO’s “SBIR Program” for FY2023
Warpspace‘s proposal, “Development of a modem and router to realize a multi-protocol platform for optical communications in space,” has been selected by the National Research and Development Agency New Energy […]
Terran Orbital-developed PTD-3 enables 200 gigabits per second space-to-ground optical link
Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP) has revealed that their Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator 3 (PTD-3) satellite enabled a successful 200 gigabits per second space-to-ground optical link. The NASA satellite hosts the […]
Airbus and VDL Group to produce UltraAir, an airborne laser communication terminal
Airbus and VDL Group have signed a partnership agreement for the development and manufacturing of a laser communication terminal for aircraft, known as UltraAir. Based on the development led by […]
Spacecom + Orbit Communication Systems establish record-breaking performance tests of airborne terminals on the AMOS-17 satellite
Spacecom (TASE: SCC), owner-operator of the AMOS satellite fleet, and Orbit Communication Systems Ltd. (TASE: ORBI), have completed a series of record-breaking performance tests of Orbit’s MPT30 and MPT46, multi-purpose, airborne satellite […]
Keysight accelerates validation of Location Based Services (LBS) by combining 5G and global navigation satellite system technology
Keysight Technologies, Inc. announced that it is first to gain Global Certification Forum (GCF) validation of a 5G location based services (LBS) Assisted Galileo (A-Galileo) test case by combining 5G […]
Inmarsat’s uncrewed vessel’s upclose observatiom of Tonga’s underwater volcanic eruption
Inmarsat, the provider of global, mobile communications, provided SEA-KIT International’s uncrewed surface vessel (USV) Maxlimer with connectivity services to transmit data and video from the site of the recent underwater volcanic […]
SWOT satellite making final launch preparations
After more than a year in assembly, integration and testing at Thales Alenia Space’s facility in Cannes, France, for the French and U.S. space agencies CNES and NASA, the SWOT […]