Technology

Arctic Space Technologies will construct a satellite network portal (SNP) for OneWeb, a hyperscale satellite ground station installation at the Arctic Space Technologies’ Space Center in Piteå in Northern Sweden. The companies signed a bilateral agreement late last year, and have now finalized the detailed design work as well as obtained all approvals for the...

Oman-based telecom service provider Azyan Telecom has signed a deal for Kymeta u8 terminals, which it will use to access OneWeb’s Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) connectivity. The terminals will be delivered to the Omani market in the first quarter of 2024. The companies announced the deal on Wednesday at Cabsat.  Azyan Telecom said the deal will...

Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) has won a new 2.26 million euros ($2.46 million) contract from the European Space Agency (ESA), the company announced May 15. This contract is for the second phase of the optical communication project NODES. The contract will support the implementation, test and demonstration of an optical network, to be carried out...

Tesat has joined SES’s team for the Eagle-1 quantum key distribution (QKD) satellite. SES announced last week that Tesat will develop and integrate the quantum key payload.  Tesat will manufacture the QKD payload comprising its SCOT80 optical communications terminal, which will establish a secure optical link from space to ground. It will also manufacture the...

NASA’s TBIRD mission recently broke its own record for optical communications in space, demonstrating 200 gigabits per second in a space-to-ground optical link from a satellite in orbit to Earth. NASA said this is the highest data rate ever achieved by optical communications technology. The TBIRD payload — TeraByte InfraRed Delivery — was built by...

Sidus Space will use Atlas Space Operations ground station services for its upcoming LizzieSat constellation, the companies announced Wednesday.  Atlas Space Operations provides Ground Software as a Service (GSaaS) to manage customer’s satellite communications through a global antenna network, using its Freedom software. The deal gives Sidus access to a larger network of global ground...

Google connectivity-focused spinoff Aalyria announced a software partnership on Tuesday with defense tech firm Anduril Industries geared toward national security use cases. The companies will integrate Aalyria’s networking orchestration platform, Spacetime, with Lattice, Anduril’s open operating system for national security capabilities. Spacetime, which Aalyria demonstrated at SATELLITE 2023, is designed to manage networks of ground stations,...

Momentus has successfully demonstrated its propulsion system that uses distilled water as propellant, reporting the first orbital raise of its orbital service vehicle (OSV).  The company announced Monday that the maneuvers raised the altitude of the Vigoride orbital service vehicle by more than 3 kilometers, a key goal for the mission. The Vigoride-5 OSV was...

SES has selected Mission Microwave to provide Ka-band block upconverters (BUC) for high throughput customer user terminals for the company’s O3b mPOWER system. Mission Microwave said in a recent release the order comes after  years of work between the companies to bring advanced solid state technologies into the O3b mPOWER system. SES commented that Mission...

Raytheon Technologies has tapped CesiumAstro to supply phased array communications payloads to support its contract from the Space Development Agency (SDA) for the Tranche 1 Tracking Layer. CesiumAstro will provide its Vireo active electronically scanned array (AESA) radio frequency (RF) communications payload for Raytheon’s seven-vehicle missile tracking satellite constellation. CesiumAstro said it will be the...