Tag: Satellite Antennas
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SWISSto12 Collaborates with Thales to Develop Active Electronically Steerable Antennas
SWISSto12, one of Europe’s fastest-growing aerospace companies and a leading manufacturer of advanced satellite payloads and systems, announced it is developing Active Electronically Steerable Antennas (AESAs) for airborne, land, and maritime platforms in collaboration with world-leading critical electronics company, Thales. SWISSto12’s AESAs will use innovative 3D-printed miniature horn antennas instead of traditional patch antennas. These…
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CesiumAstro’s CommPack Achieves TRL 9 Status on NASA’s Starling Mission
CesiumAstro, one of the industry leaders in active phased array communications technology for space and airborne systems, celebrates the successful initial tests of its CommPack cross-link communications payload on the NASA Starling mission’s CubeSats. With these tests complete, the CommPack system achieves TRL 9 status, the highest technology readiness level, and the NASA Starling team…
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Firefly Aerospace Awarded NASA Contract to Provide RF Calibration Services from Lunar Orbit
Firefly Aerospace, an end-to-end space transportation company, was awarded an $18 million NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) contract to provide radio frequency calibration services from lunar orbit as part of Blue Ghost Mission 2, Firefly’s second mission to the Moon in 2026. This contract marks Firefly’s third NASA CLPS task order award, totaling nearly…
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BeetleSat Announces Successful Software-defined Radio Two-Way Data Communication Using Expandable Antenna
BeetleSat, formerly NSLComm, a fast-growing satellite technology company building the world’s first global low-Earth orbit (LEO) constellation optimized for premium point-to-point communications, announced the successful software-defined radio (SDR) two-way data communication using its lightweight, very high data rate, expandable antenna. “Successful data transmission between our satellite and ground segment is a significant step forward in…
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SkyFox Labs Introduces New Space-friendly Active GPS Patch Antenna Module for Cubesats
SkyFox Labs s.r.o., a new Space company and manufacturer of the world’s first space-friendly components for CubeSats and Small Satellites has introduced a new GPS patch antenna module for satellite development The nanoPATCH-L1 is a subminiature version of the Space-Friendly GPS-L1 CubeSat Active Antenna module specially designed to provide a strong signal for GPS satellites…
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ISISPACE Introduces New S-Band Patch Antenna for CubeSats
ISISPACE one of the leading companies in the small satellite market, specializing in realizing innovative turn-key small satellite missions including launch and operations for in-orbit delivery has introduced a new S-band patch antenna for CubeSats. The ISIS S-band patch antenna is part of a new generation of antennas designed for S-band communications on nanosatellites and…
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ESA Continues Work on Fixing Juice’s Radar for Icy Moons Exploration (RIME) Antenna
Juice’s ice-penetrating RIME antenna has not yet been deployed as planned. During the first week of commissioning, an issue arose with the 16-meter-long Radar for Icy Moons Exploration (RIME) antenna, which is preventing it from being released from its mounting bracket. Work continues to free the radar and teams at ESA’s mission control center in…
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ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer Captures Stunning Images of Earth from Space
ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) has taken its first monitoring camera images showing part of the spacecraft with Earth as a stunning backdrop. The mission launched on an Ariane 5 from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou on 14 April 14:14 CEST and the images were captured in the hours afterwards. Juice has two monitoring cameras…
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Satixfy Successfully Demonstrates New Antenna Together with OneWeb Technologies and Air Force Research Lab
SatixFy Communications, one of the leaders in next-generation satellite communication systems announced the completion of a contracted demonstration with OneWeb Technologies and the Air Force Research Lab, to demonstrate SatixFy’s new antenna for use by the United States Department of Defense (DoD), under its initiative Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet (DEUCSI). This program was…
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ISTSat-1 Nanosatellite Successfully Passes Thermal Vacuum Tests
ISTSat-1, the first Portuguese CubeSat, has completed its crucial structural qualification and thermal-vacuum tests as part of the Fly Your Satellite! Program, and is now one step closer to its launch. The CubeSat ISTsat-1 is the first-ever nanosatellite designed by students from the University of Lisbon’s Instituto Superior Técnico and is part of the second…