{"id":57925,"date":"2021-03-10T21:10:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T13:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/telesat-will-test-satixfy-sx3099-processor-chips-on-lightspeed-leo-satellites\/"},"modified":"2021-03-10T21:10:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T13:10:44","slug":"telesat-will-test-satixfy-sx3099-processor-chips-on-lightspeed-leo-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/telesat-will-test-satixfy-sx3099-processor-chips-on-lightspeed-leo-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"Telesat Will Test SatixFy SX3099 Processor Chips on Lightspeed LEO Satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Hardware technology developer <strong>SatixFy<\/strong> will give Canadian satellite operator <strong>Telesat<\/strong> early access to its second-generation Sx3099 modem chip for verification testing on Telesat\u2019s Lightspeed Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation, according to the terms of a partnership contract announced March 10.<\/p>\n<p>SatixFy said the partnership includes working on advanced modem designs for Telesat Lightspeed landing stations and user terminals. The partners will perform a six-month requirements verification program and conduct integration work and interoperability tests with processors onboard Telesat Lightspeed satellites. Telesat said that SatixFy\u2019s Sx3099 modem chip is well suited for the requirements of its Lightspeed network because of its ability support high-capacity links and beam hopping with reduced power consumption and smaller cell size.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSatixFy is at the forefront of high capacity, high-performance SATCOM chip development, and the Sx3099 modem chip has the features and capabilities to meet the challenging enterprise-grade service delivery requirements of the Telesat Lightspeed network,\u201d Telesat LEO Vice President Erwin Hudson said in a statement. \u201cSatixFy shares Telesat\u2019s commitment to redefining satellite-delivered broadband connectivity and we have been impressed with SatixFy\u2019s consistent and focused execution of their technology roadmap.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Telesat selected&nbsp;<b>Thales Alenia Space<\/b> in February to be the prime contractor and manufacturer of the Lightspeed constellation in a deal worth $3 billion. Telesat is investing about $5 billion total into the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hardware technology developer SatixFy will give Canadian satellite operator Telesat early access to its second-generation Sx3099 modem chip for verification testing on Telesat\u2019s Lightspeed Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation, according to the terms of a partnership contract announced March 10. SatixFy said the partnership includes working on advanced modem designs for Telesat Lightspeed landing stations and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57927,"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-57925","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\/57925"}],"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=57925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}