Tag: Ground
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Momentus Completes Environmental Testing of Vigoride-7 Orbital Service Vehicle
Momentus, a US commercial space company offering satellite buses, satellite components, and in-space infrastructure services, announced the successful completion of Environmental Testing of its Vigoride-7 Orbital Service Vehicle, scheduled to launch aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-16 mission targeted for launch no earlier than March 2026. Vigoride 7 is scheduled to carry payloads for several customers, including the U.S.…
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ST Engineering iDirect and Capgemini Join Forces to Develop 5G Non-Terrestrial Networks
ST Engineering iDirect, a global leader in satellite communications, announced that it is collaborating with Capgemini, an AI-powered global business and technology transformation company, to develop a 5G Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) satellite base station. Based on cloud-native fundamentals, the solution will enable seamless integration between satellite and terrestrial networks, accelerating the adoption of standards-based, software-defined…
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Isar Aerospace Advances First Test Flight With Spectrum Launch Vehicle
Isar Aerospace, a European launch-vehicle manufacturer focused on dedicated small-satellite access to space is progressing toward its first test flight of the Spectrum launch vehicle. The test flight represents a major milestone in the company’s development roadmap and forms a critical step toward establishing a commercially available, European-built orbital launch service. The first test flight…
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Firefly Aerospace Integrates Volta Wireless Power Receiver into Blue Ghost Lunar Mission
Firefly Aerospace, a market-leading space and defense technology company, announced a new commercial payload agreement with Volta Space Technologies to host a wireless power receiver on Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 2 lander on the far side of the Moon. The payload will serve as a technology demonstration for Volta’s planned lunar power network, called LightGrid. “Firefly is…
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Hunter Communications Launches Ku-Beam Managed Ku-Band Satellite Connectivity Service
Hunter Communications, a satellite communications service provider specializing in managed bandwidth and teleport services, is highlighting Ku-Beam, the Ku-band satellite connectivity offering designed to support enterprise, government, broadcast and mobility users requiring reliable and flexible satellite communications. Ku-Beam is positioned as a managed Ku-band SATCOM service, integrating satellite capacity, ground infrastructure and network management into…
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Cobham Satcom and Gatehouse Satcom Collaborate on Next-Gen 5G Satellite Infrastructure
Cobham Satcom, a global leader in satellite communications technology, and Gatehouse Satcom, a global frontrunner in advanced 5G NTN (Non-Terrestrial Networks) software, announced a strategic merger between Gatehouse Satcom and Cobham Satcom’s Network Division. This merger marks a major step in accelerating the satellite industry’s transition towards standardized 5G-based connectivity across commercial, government, defense, and…
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Viasat’s Rocket Telemetry Service Selected by INNOSPACE for First Commercial Launch from Brazil
Viasat, a global leader in satellite communications, announced it will provide its launch telemetry service for INNOSPACE – a South Korean satellite launch service company. The mission, currently targeted for later this month, will see INNOSPACE’s HANBIT-Nano launch vehicle carry a total of eight registered payloads, including five small satellites and three non-separating experimental devices,…
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Keysight and KT SAT Achieve First NR-NTN Multi-Orbit Handover Between GEO & LEO Satellites
Keysight Technologies announced that, in collaboration with KT SAT, it has demonstrated a successful non-terrestrial network (NTN) handover using the KOREASAT-6A satellite at KT SAT’s Kumsan Satellite Network Operation Center in Korea. In a controlled lab environment, the companies established the industry’s first NR-NTN multi-orbit handover between a commercial GEO satellite and an emulated LEO…
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Reconfigurable RADAR and SATCOM Terminals for Satellite Communications
Greenerwave, a deep-tech company specializing in wave-control technologies, highlights the SATCOM terminal solutions built on the company’s proprietary Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) and software-defined metasurfaces. Headquartered at 35 rue du Sentier, 75002 Paris, France, Greenerwave develops low-power, electronically reconfigurable hardware enabling efficient beam steering, high-gain performance and compact antenna architectures for satellite communications across multiple…
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ICEYE & Lee County Renew Partnership to Strengthen Hurricane Response Using Satellite Data
ICEYE, a global leader in satellite-powered disaster management solutions, announced that it has renewed its agreement with Lee County Emergency Management (LCEM) to continue enhancing the county’s disaster response and preparedness capabilities to provide near-real time flood and storm surge monitoring. Now entering its second year with ICEYE, this renewal builds on a successful first…