{"id":46743,"date":"2026-07-10T18:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T10:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/space42-and-skylo-test-d2d-test-on-thuraya-4\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T18:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T10:00:10","slug":"space42-and-skylo-test-d2d-test-on-thuraya-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/space42-and-skylo-test-d2d-test-on-thuraya-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Space42 and Skylo Test D2D Test on Thuraya-4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Space42<\/strong> and <strong>Skylo<\/strong> conducted direct-to-device (D2D) testing on the Thuraya-4 satellite, successfully demonstrating both SMS and SOS messaging.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The partners said in a July 9 announcement they expect to roll out commercial D2D messaging later this year, contingent on regulatory approval. Space42 and Skylo previously announced working together in May.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The testing validated two-way SMS and SOS on standard Android devices over Thuraya-4, integrated through Skylo\u2019s 3GPP-compliant non-terrestrial network (NTN) platform. Space42 and Skyo are also working on further D2D capabilities including location sharing, application and IoT data transmission, and automotive connectivity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe successful test with Skylo proves that Thuraya-4 is equipped to provide carrier-grade, resilient messaging directly to devices, extending access to enterprises, governments, mobile operators, and consumers. This achievement further reflects a working model of the ecosystem approach we are building within the NTN industry, to make universal, standards-based connectivity a reality,\u201d commented Space42 Space Services CEO Ali Al Hashemi. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space42 and Skylo conducted direct-to-device (D2D) testing on the Thuraya-4 satellite, successfully demonstrating both SMS and SOS messaging.&nbsp; The partners said in a July 9 announcement they expect to roll out commercial D2D messaging later this year, contingent on regulatory approval. Space42 and Skylo previously announced working together in May.&nbsp; The testing validated two-way SMS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46744,"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":[],"class_list":["post-46743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46743"}],"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=46743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}