{"id":17308,"date":"2023-03-13T18:02:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T10:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/satellite-plans-move-ahead-for-kymeta-and-oneweb-and-for-spacex-and-t-mobile\/"},"modified":"2023-03-13T18:02:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T10:02:45","slug":"satellite-plans-move-ahead-for-kymeta-and-oneweb-and-for-spacex-and-t-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/satellite-plans-move-ahead-for-kymeta-and-oneweb-and-for-spacex-and-t-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Satellite plans move ahead for Kymeta and OneWeb \u2014 and for SpaceX and T-Mobile"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full-width\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"463\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/230313-kymeta-630x463.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-758483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/230313-kymeta-630x463.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/230313-kymeta-1260x927.jpg 1260w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/230313-kymeta-768x565.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/230313-kymeta-1536x1130.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/230313-kymeta-2048x1507.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" class=\"wp-element-caption\">Kymeta\u2019s team shows off flat-panel antennas made for OneWeb. (Kymeta Photo via Business Wire)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Redmond, Wash.-based Kymeta Corp. says it has completed its first shipment of electronically steered flat-panel antennas to OneWeb for that company\u2019s satellite-based data network.<\/p>\n<p>In a news release timed to coincide with the Satellite 2023 conference in Washington, D.C., Kymeta said its Hawk u8 terminal will be available for OneWeb\u2019s fixed-location applications, and will soon be available for land-based and sea-based mobile communications. OneWeb is putting the finishing touches on its constellation in low Earth orbit, or LEO, and is planning to ramp up commercial broadband service within a few months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe satellite industry is entering an exciting new era, as every major industry from agriculture to defense can increasingly tap mobile broadband as an efficient and effective means to transform their operations,\u201d said Walter Berger, Kymeta\u2019s president and co-CEO. \u201cThe race to capitalize on the opportunity will be won by a group relay, not a single-company sprint. Partnerships such as our ongoing collaboration with OneWeb, along with Kymeta\u2019s investments and innovation, will accelerate new applications to connect industries on Earth to capacity in space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>OneWeb CEO Neil Masterson said Kymeta\u2019s u8 system will give customers \u201can exciting new choice of terminal for reliable, efficient connectivity to our LEO network.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kymeta, which was founded in 2012 with backing from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, makes use of an innovative type of technology called metamaterials to build antennas that can be steered by software, without moving parts. Its hybrid cellular-satellite terminals can facilitate communications in hard-to-reach areas \u2014 an application that\u2019s been of particular interest to defense customers.<\/p>\n<p>The rise of broadband networks is a leading theme at Satellite 2023. Here are some other revelations:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>OneWeb announced that it\u2019s signed a letter of intent with Amazon Web Services to explore bundling satellite connectivity with cloud services and edge computing services. Clint Crosier, AWS\u2019 director for aerospace and satellite services, said \u201cwe are excited to work with OneWeb in their efforts to provide cloud-based connectivity and deliver innovative services to customers worldwide.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>CNBC reported that SpaceX plans to begin testing its Starlink satellite-to-cell service with Bellevue, Wash.-based T-Mobile this year. Jonathan Hofeller, SpaceX vice president of Starlink enterprise sales, said that SpaceX\u2019s factory in Redmond is manufacturing six satellites per day, and that SpaceX currently has \u201cwell over\u201d 1 million Starlink users.<\/li>\n<li>Ball Aerospace said a prototype payload equipped with a version of Microsoft\u2019s Azure Orbital Space SDK platform is functioning as planned in low Earth orbit after its integration onto a Loft Orbital satellite that was launched in January. Algorithms hosted onboard the satellite are able to remove obstructing clouds from Earth imagery and prioritize the downlink of data based on image content, Ball Aerospace said. Steve Kitay, senior director of Microsoft Azure Space, said the mission is \u201ca step forward in bringing our mutual customers a standardized platform for application development in space.\u201d <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kymeta\u2019s team shows off flat-panel antennas made for OneWeb. (Kymeta Photo via Business Wire) Redmond, Wash.-based Kymeta Corp. says it has completed its first shipment of electronically steered flat-panel antennas to OneWeb for that company\u2019s satellite-based data network. In a news release timed to coincide with the Satellite 2023 conference in Washington, D.C., Kymeta said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4591,4578,4579,354,4592,4017,1277,20,4336,4590],"class_list":["post-17308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-antennas","tag-azure-orbital","tag-azure-space","tag-kymeta","tag-loft-orbital","tag-microsoft","tag-oneweb","tag-satellite","tag-satellite-broadband","tag-satellite-conference"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}