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Telespazio<\/strong>, a Leonardo<\/strong> Group company, has successfully completed the installation of a new proprietary S\/X-band satellite antenna on the island of Santa Maria, in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores (Atlantic Ocean). For Telespazio, this represents a further significant strengthening of its international network of ground stations, expanding the range of satellite services the company offers in support of next-generation space missions.<\/p>\n The new facility in the Azores is part of Telespazio’s Polar Station Facility (PSF) programme, a strategic investment by the company aimed at managing an interoperable platform of ground infrastructure, both proprietary and third-party. The system also enables integration with various control centres, creating an advanced architecture based on the Ground Station as a Service. The platform makes it possible to manage all the operational phases of a space mission in a unified way: from planning satellite acquisitions to distributing S\/X-band data, in both real-time and near real-time modes, ensuring high levels of throughput and communication reliability.<\/p>\n In addition to the Santa Maria antenna, the current infrastructure pool includes two polar antennas located in Sodankyl\u00e4, Finland, and the BTS-2 antenna installed at the Fucino Space Centre, in Abruzzo. Thanks to this distributed network, Telespazio is positioned as a ground station service provider capable of supporting institutional and commercial missions, with extended coverage and centralised resource management.<\/p>\n The infrastructure\u2019s first operational use will be in support of the IRIDE-FOS project, as part of the IRIDE programme, the national Earth Observation infrastructure owned by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and developed in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA)<\/strong> through the acquisition of data from the NIMBUS and PLATiNO satellites. Future applications are also already planned as part of the COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation programme, promoted by ASI and the Ministry of Defence, confirming the solution\u2019s strategic role within the national and European space ecosystem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Telespazio, a Leonardo Group company, has successfully completed the installation of a new proprietary S\/X-band satellite antenna on the island of Santa Maria, in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores (Atlantic Ocean). For Telespazio, this represents a further significant strengthening of its international network of ground stations, expanding the range of satellite services the company […]<\/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":[20,82,71],"class_list":["post-46398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-satellite","tag-satellite-antennas","tag-space-mission"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46398"}],"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=46398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Also Read: What are Satellite Antennas?<\/h4>\n