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Hughes Hails Success of Recent Private 5G Demo for US Navy
Hughes Network Systems and Boost Mobile have demonstrated optimized, multi-transport network management for the U.S. Navy in a recent demonstration. The demonstration, which took place earlier this year, tested remote network orchestration, wide area network (WAN) resiliency, and secure radio access network (RAN) sharing between standalone private 5G networks operating at the U.S. Navy Air Station,…
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Orbit Secures $6M Contract to Supply Advanced SATCOM Systems for Naval Military Platform in Asia
Orbit Communication Systems, a global provider of maritime and airborne SATCOM terminals, tracking ground station solutions, and mission-critical airborne audio management systems has announced a $6 million contract with a prominent Asian integrator to supply advanced satellite communication systems for new naval military platforms. These OceanTRx 7MIL systems will be delivered between 2025 and 2030, providing…
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Redwire to Supply Advanced RF Payloads to European Defense Contractor
Redwire Corporation, a company in space infrastructure for the next generation space economy, announced that it has been selected to deliver radio frequency (RF) payloads for a constellation of satellites for a leading European defense contractor. Through this work Redwire will extend its established, flight-proven RF payloads to overseas customers. Redwire will provide multiple shipsets…
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Blue Origin sends six people on suborbital space trip, marking a first for researchers
Blue Origin’s New Shepard booster lands after a suborbital space launch. (Blue Origin via YouTube) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture today provided a brief dose of spaceflight to six people, including the first researcher to conduct his own experiment on a suborbital space trip with NASA support. The team for Blue Origin’s eighth crewed…
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Sparks are flying day and night as SpaceX preps Starship pad to catch a rocket
Pretty much every day for the last couple of weeks, workers wielding welding guns and torches have climbed onto SpaceX’s Starship launch pad in South Texas to make last-minute upgrades ahead of the next test flight of the world’s largest rocket. Livestreams of the launch site provided by LabPadre and NASASpaceflight.com have shown sparks raining…
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Thaicom and Hughes Communications India Partners for Satellite Capacity
Thaicom Public Company Limited, a leading Asian satellite and space tech company, announced that its subsidiary IPSTAR (India) Private Limited (IPSTAR) has signed an agreement for satellite capacity with Hughes Communications India Private Limited (HCI), a leading provider of broadband satellite and managed network services, for satellite capacity over India on Thaicom’s satellite fleet. Under…
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NASA’s Europa Clipper Receives Record-Breaking Solar Arrays for Mission to Jupiter’s Moon
NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft recently got outfitted with a set of enormous solar arrays at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The largest spacecraft NASA has ever built for planetary exploration receives massive solar arrays to power it on the journey to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. Each measuring about 46½ feet (14.2 meters) long…
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Verizon Makes a Satellite Direct-to-Device Service Play with Skylo
Verizon is the latest big name telco to accelerate its reach into the satellite arena. It has teamed up with Skylo to launch a commercial direct-to-device messaging service for Verizon customers so they can stay connected wherever they are. The two companies announced the partnership, Aug. 28. Starting this fall, customers on certain smartphones have…
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Gotonomi is Now Taking Orders for its New UAV Satellite Terminal
Gotonomi has completed a series of successful trials for its UAV satcom terminals and is now ready to take orders for these terminals. The UAV satellite connectivity solutions provider is now able to transition from pre-production flight development kits to type-approved, commercial terminals, enabling scalable beyond visual line of sight operations (BVLOS) for drone operators…