Tag: 5G
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OQ Technology Announces Upcoming MACSAT Launch Aboard Arianespace’s Vega Rocket
Fresh from a successful €13 million Series A funding round, OQ Technology, one of the leading 5G IoT satellite operators, has announced the forthcoming MACSAT launch with Arianespace’s Vega on 4th October 2023 (mission VV23). This pivotal step will further fortify its space and ground infrastructure, as well as expand its satellite coverage. OQ Technology’s…
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Filtronic Secures ESA Contract to Develop Technology for High-Speed Satellite Connectivity
British electronics specialist Filtronic is developing advanced technology that will enable next-generation satellite constellations to deliver high-speed broadband internet coverage. Backed by ESA and the UK Space Agency, the company is working on spacefaring hardware that aims to provide fast, high-capacity links between low Earth orbiting communications satellites and receiving ground stations. The contract forms…
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AST SpaceMobile Achieves First-Ever Space-Based 5G Connection From Everyday Smartphones
AST SpaceMobile, the company building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly by standard mobile phones, announced another unprecedented leap in telecommunications by successfully making the first-ever 5G connection for voice and data between an everyday, unmodified smartphone and a satellite in space. AST SpaceMobile’s groundbreaking space-based 5G cellular broadband capabilities and…
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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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Satellite operators poised for $9 billion payday after clearing C-band spectrum
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched early Thursday with the last of a dozen new C-band video relay satellites purchased by Intelsat and SES to help clear spectrum for the rollout of 5G wireless services in the United States. Intelsat and SES, two of the world’s largest geostationary communications satellites operators, are on track to…
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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…