{"id":49545,"date":"2025-03-17T18:29:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T10:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/mda-space-orders-10m-worth-of-chips-and-engineering-from-satixfy\/"},"modified":"2025-03-17T18:29:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T10:29:04","slug":"mda-space-orders-10m-worth-of-chips-and-engineering-from-satixfy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/mda-space-orders-10m-worth-of-chips-and-engineering-from-satixfy\/","title":{"rendered":"MDA Space Orders $10M Worth of Chips and Engineering from SatixFy"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>SatixFy Communications <\/b>secured an approximately $10 million order from <b>MDA Space<\/b> for engineering models, space-grade chips, and additional engineering work, SatixFy announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>This includes a purchase order for $6.7 million for engineering models and space-grade chips. It also includes an authorization to proceed agreement for an additional $3.5 million for engineering work.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SatixFy said the company will provide engineering models and space-grade chips, which will be used for internal testing and assembly in MDA Space\u2019s satellites. These advanced chips and digital beamformers will enable high-performance and power-efficient communication satellite solutions for MDA Space.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after MDA Space acquired SatixFy\u2019s digital payload division for $40 million in 202, and a $20 million pre-purchase commitment for digital satellite chipsets. SatixFy retained its ASIC intellectual property and new chip development in the acquisition.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SatixFy CEO Nir Barkan said this order shows the strong market demand for the company\u2019s space-grade chips and digital beamforming technology. \u201cThese agreements solidify SatixFy\u2019s role as a key enabler of next-generation satellite communications,\u201d Barkan said. \u201cOur solutions are very much at the heart of next-generation advanced satellite networks, supporting both LEO and GEO constellations that will define the future of global connectivity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MDA Space is ramping up activity to build the Telesat Lightspeed constellation based on its Aurora software-defined satellite model. The company recently received a $768 million contract to manufacture more than 50 Aurora satellites for Globalstar\u2019s next-generation constellation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SatixFy Communications secured an approximately $10 million order from MDA Space for engineering models, space-grade chips, and additional engineering work, SatixFy announced on Monday. This includes a purchase order for $6.7 million for engineering models and space-grade chips. It also includes an authorization to proceed agreement for an additional $3.5 million for engineering work.&nbsp; SatixFy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48874,"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-49545","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\/49545"}],"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=49545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}