Tag: 5G
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U.S. Space Force Awards IDIQ Contract to Hughes for Proliferated LEO Satellite Services
Hughes Network Systems, an EchoStar company, announced that it has been awarded a five-year, Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the U.S. Space Force for proliferated Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite-based services. Under the IDIQ vehicle, valued at up to $900 million, the U.S. Department of Defense, other federal agencies and international coalition partners…
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Airbus Partners with Astrocast to Enhance Satellite IoT Technology
Astrocast, a satellite IoT operator, announced the extension of its partnership with Airbus Defence and Space, a global leader in the aerospace industry. This partnership enhances the capabilities of satellite Internet of Things (SatIoT) technology. It enables Astrocast to further increase its network capacity to provide the most reliable and cost-effective SatIoT solutions to its…
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BAE Systems Successfully Completes First Flight of its Uncrewed Satellite Aerial System
British engineers have successfully completed a stratospheric flight trial of BAE Systems’ High Altitude Pseudo-Satellite (HAPS) Uncrewed Aerial System (UAS) – PHASA-35. Over a 24-hour period, PHASA-35 soared to more than 66,000 feet, reaching the stratosphere, before landing successfully. The trial, completed last month in New Mexico in the USA, allowed engineers to assess the…
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OQ Technology Awarded €1.1 Million Contract by ESA to Build Three Advanced Nanosatellites
OQ Technology has been successfully awarded a € 1.1 Million contract to design, build, integrate, test, and demonstrate three advanced nanosatellites featuring multiple payloads providing space-based 5G narrowband internet-of-things communications services, an optical communications link, as well as hyperspectral Earth observation data to support precision agriculture as part of the ERMIS mission. ERMIS [Hellenic Cubesat…
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EchoStar Selected by Seven European IoT Solution Providers for Real-Time Satellite IoT Connectivity
EchoStar Corporation announced that seven leading European Internet of Things (IoT) service providers have signed multi-year commercial agreements to develop and sell IoT solutions using EchoStar Mobile’s Pan-European, satellite-based, LoRa-enabled IoT network. The customers, API-K, Cyric, DalesLandNet, Dryad, Galaxy1, ProEsys, and Symes are leveraging the real-time network to enable massive IoT deployments for applications such…
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Rohde & Schwarz Collaborates with Qualcomm to Test GSO and GEO Satellite Chipsets for IoT-NTN
Rohde & Schwarz, in collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies, will conduct a broad range of NB-IoT over NTN tests that address the many challenges inherent to satellite-based non-terrestrial networks that use geosynchronous orbit (GSO) and geostationary orbit (GEO) constellations. The test set covers time and frequency synchronization from prolonged delays and the Doppler effect, low signal-to-interference-plus-noise…
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SES-18 C-Band Satellite Goes Operational Providing Network Communications Services
SES announced that the SES-18 satellite is now delivering services at 103 degrees West, replacing SES-3’s C-band payload. SES-18 is enabling SES to continue delivering C-band broadcast and radio services to millions of American homes, as well as providing other critical network communications services to the United States. SES-19, which was launched in tandem with…
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CesiumAstro Welcomes Hinrich Woebcken as Senior Executive Advisor
CesiumAstro has teamed up with Hinrich J. Woebcken, general partner at Trousdale Ventures and former president and CEO of Volkswagen Group of America. Woebcken will serve a dual role, working with CesiumAstro to refine its vision for connected mobility and supporting the company’s adoption of automotive mass-manufacturing best practices. Mr. Woebcken’s 30 years of industry…
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AST SpaceMobile Achieves First-Ever Space-Based Voice Call with Unmodified Smartphones
AST SpaceMobile Inc., the company building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly by standard mobile phones, announced the successful completion of the first-ever two-way voice calls, directly to everyday unmodified smartphones using the BlueWalker 3 satellite. This is the first time anyone has ever achieved a direct voice connection from space…
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Maxar Awarded Contract Extension from the National Reconnaissance Office for RF Remote Sensing
Maxar Technologies, a provider of comprehensive space solutions and secure, precise, geospatial intelligence, announced that Aurora Insight Inc., a company acquired by Maxar in December 2022, has received a Stage II contract extension from the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) for commercial radio frequency (RF) remote sensing. Aurora Insight, now part of Maxar’s Earth Intelligence business,…