D-Orbit has signed a launch and deployment contract with Kepler Communications that covers the launch of two, 6U, telecommunications smallsats. The satellites will be boarded inside the ION Satellite Carrier (ION), D-Orbit’s proprietary, versatile, and cost-effective, orbital transfer vehicle (OTV) designed to precisely deploy satellites and perform technology demonstrations of third-party payloads on-orbit. After launch, […]
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Terran Orbital completes Fleet Space’s CENTAURI-5 bus commissioning
Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP) has concluded the bus commissioning for the CENTAURI-5 satellite with nominal health and status checkouts. Tyvak International SRL, Terran Orbital’s wholly-owned international subsidiary, designed and built this LEO satellite for Fleet Space Technologies. CENTAURI-5 adds capacity, reduces signal delay, and provides additional network redundancy. The 3D printed metal patch antenna […]
Terran Orbital Integrates Fleet Space, GeoOptics, And NASA Satellites Aboard SpaceX Falcon 9 Prior to Transporter-5 Launch
Terran Orbital designs, builds, and integrates satellite solutions that help solve some of the world’s most complex problems…” Terran Orbital Corporation, a global provider of satellite solutions, primarily serving the United States aerospace and defense industry, announced the successful integration of six Terran Orbital designed and built satellites aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket prior […]
Fleet Space’s Centauri 5 Satellite Successfully Launched From The SpaceX Transporter-5 Rideshare Mission
Fleet Space launches its latest Centauri 5 satellite using the Space X Falcon 9 launch vehicle, making this Fleet’s 7th satellite on-orbit. This LEO satellite was produced using 3D printing technology and adds capacity, reduces signal delay and provides additional network redundancy in the existing Centauri smallsat constellation. This was the company’s third launch with […]
U.S. Space Force To Use ViaLite’s Wideband Links For Satellite Backhaul
With their ability to operate simultaneously across the L- and S-bands Wideband fiber optic links from ViaLite are to be used in the backhaul network for the US Space Force’s (USSF) new satellite mesh network. The USSF’s initial Tranche 0 constellation will be comprised of 20 transport satellites that will send data to defense-based assets […]
Terran Orbital Ships Fleet Space’s CENTAURI-5 Satellite To Cape Canaveral For Launch
Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP) has shipped the CENTAURI-5 satellite to Cape Canaveral in preparation for the SpaceX Transporter-5 launch. The CENTAURI-5 spacecraft is part of a constellation commissioned by Fleet Space Technologies to deliver global connectivity solutions specifically designed for the energy, utilities and resource industries. Tyvak International, a Terran Orbital Corporation, designed and […]
Pan-European LoRa® IoT Early Adopter Program Launched By EchoStar Mobile
EchoStar Mobile Limited has launched an early adopter program for pan-European, satellite-based, LoRa® Internet of Things (IoT) service as well as a white paper about accessing the benefits of massive IoT. Under the program, participants in sectors such as transport and logistics, agriculture, oil and gas and utilities will test a satellite-enabled connectivity solution that […]
Africa To Take Delivery Of AAC Clyde Space’s Ground Station
“This ground station will be a stepping stone to leverage space based data and services to improve the quality of life, safety and economic prosperity in the region” … New Space company AAC Clyde Space has, through its subsidiary AAC Space Africa, been selected to deliver a ground station to a client in Africa. The […]
Omnispace and Lacuna’s IoT Network Is First Offering Commercial LoRaWan® Direct-to-Satellite Connectivity
Omnispace, the company changing mobile communications, announced an agreement with Lacuna Space to collaborate on the distribution of a ground-breaking Internet of Things (IoT) service. The collaboration will enable the commercial launch of a first-of-its-kind, global, open standards-based IoT network. The service will employ the LoRaWAN® protocol to support direct-to-satellite communications for a broad range of IoT […]
Satellite S-Band Transceiver For Smallsats Debuts from Syrlinks
Syrlinks has debuted their EWC15-NG Transceiver product, a new generation of the company’s transceivers to implement high performance Telemetry, Tracking and Control (TT&C) service. The hardware design is based and inherits from the EWC15 and EWC15-C Syrlinks products that have been used over the last decade in key space projects such as ROSETTA, DEEP IMPACT, […]