{"id":55084,"date":"2022-07-07T22:57:58","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T14:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/atomos-addvalue-partner-to-develop-leo-otv-tech-using-inmarsat-elera-service\/"},"modified":"2022-07-07T22:57:58","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T14:57:58","slug":"atomos-addvalue-partner-to-develop-leo-otv-tech-using-inmarsat-elera-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/atomos-addvalue-partner-to-develop-leo-otv-tech-using-inmarsat-elera-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Atomos, Addvalue Partner to Develop LEO OTV Tech Using Inmarsat Elera Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Denver-based in-space transportation company <strong>Atomos Space<\/strong> entered into a technology partnership with <strong>Addvalue Innovation<\/strong>, a communication terminals provider, to develop orbital transfer vehicles (OTVs) that relocate Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites and provide terrestrial logistics in orbit. The companies said Thursday that the collaboration will leverage Addvalue\u2019s Inter-satellite Data Relay System (IDRS) terminal operating over <strong>Inmarsat<\/strong>\u2019s Elera Geostationary satellite network.<\/p>\n<p>Addvalue\u2019s IDRS solution is designed to deliver an on-demand data connection service for orbital transfer vehicles docking with an orbiting spacecraft. This company said the technology supports bi-directional data transfer at rates in excess of 200 Kbps in all orbital inclinations and at altitudes of up to 1,000 km.<\/p>\n<p>Atomos, which is privately funded, is scheduled to launch its first orbital transfer vehicles in 2023. Atomos said it has more than $300 million worth of letters of intent from commercial satellite operators to utilize its services.<\/p>\n<p>Todd McDonell, president of Inmarsat Global Government, issued a statement praising the collaborative solution. \u201cInmarsat\u2019s Elera Geostationary satellites and global ground network enable command and control of the orbital transfer vehicles in real time via the Addvalue IDRS \u2018always on\u2019 link. This ensures that Atomos Space can deliver a precise, time-critical and reliable service to its clients \u2013 the satellite constellation operators,\u201d McDonnell said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver-based in-space transportation company Atomos Space entered into a technology partnership with Addvalue Innovation, a communication terminals provider, to develop orbital transfer vehicles (OTVs) that relocate Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites and provide terrestrial logistics in orbit. The companies said Thursday that the collaboration will leverage Addvalue\u2019s Inter-satellite Data Relay System (IDRS) terminal operating over Inmarsat\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55085,"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-55084","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\/55084"}],"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=55084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}