Intelsat has signed an MoU with Aalyria to advance advance the development of a new optical technology that will transfer record amounts of data between ground and space. The MoU […]
Space-to-Ground
Terran Orbital assists with demo of single-pass optical downlink for NASA’s Pathfinder technology demonstrator 3 satellite
Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP) has contributed to the successful demonstration of a record-breaking, 1.4-terabytes of data delivered from space to ground by an optical downlink in a single pass. The […]
Air-to-air laser comms successfully demo’d by General Atomics-ASI
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has successfully completed an air-to-air laser communication link between GA-ASI’s Laser Airborne Communication (LAC) terminals integrated onto two, company-owned, King Air aircraft. Laser communication […]
NASA awards contracts to assess Near-Space communication capabilities
NASA has selected two companies – Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) USA of Denver and SpaceLink Corporation of McLean, Virginia. These companies will develop capability studies to explore and demonstrate communications […]
SpaceLink selected by DARPA for the agency’s Proliferated Space Domain program
SpaceLink has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Strategic Technology Office (STO) for a contract award — the company will participate in the Space-Based Adaptive Communications […]
Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander completes JPL Deep Space Network ground testing successfully
Last month, the Deep Space Network (DSN) from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) successfully completed end-to-end test communications with Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander. These tests demonstrated compatibility with space-to-ground communications […]
Terran Orbital completes NASA Pathfinder Tech Demo 3 bus commissioning less than a week post launch
Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP) has announced that the company’s Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator 3 (PTD-3) satellite has completed bus commissioning with all health and status checkouts nominal. Terran Orbital designed […]
Terran Orbital Delivers The PTD-3 Satellite To Cape Canaveral SFS For Integration Into The SpaceX Transporter-5 Mission
Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP) has delivered the Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator 3 (PTD-3) satellite to the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida for integration ahead of SpaceX’s Transporter-5 mission. […]
Satellite Laser Communication System Projected To Grow To Million$$$$ By 2030
The global satellite laser communication system market size is expected to grow from $356.8 million in 2021 to $5205.7 million by 2030, at a CAGR of 39.8% from 2022 to […]
KSAT Experiencing All-Time High For Their KSATLite Ground Network
With satellite traffic reaching more than 52,000 passes on KSAT‘s KSATlite network in March, the successful, small-aperture ground network is currently handling an unprecedented amount of satellite supports. Although traffic […]