Gatehouse Satcom will acquire Satlab, a company that designs and manufactures radio for small satellites, under a new deal announced Thursday. Satlab, based in Aalborg, Denmark, develops S- and X-band radios and has delivered radios to more than 100 customers.
Both companies are based in Denmark. Gatehouse Satcom noted that the deal puts satellite network technology and flight-proven satellite radios under the same company. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition is expected to close by the end of the year.
Together, the companies plan to develop a Satlab radio that runs Gatehouse Satcom’s 5G NTN software, starting with narrowband IoT (NB-IoT). Satlab will continue to sell radios for their customers’ software, and Gatehouse Satcom will continue to sell 5G NTN software for customers to use on any radios.
The Satlab team will join Gatehouse Satcom, but its radios will retain the Satlab name for its product line.
“We see a future where a device connects through a satellite as easily as through a cell tower, wherever it is. With Satlab, we take on a bigger responsibility for getting there, from the network to the radios on the satellite. We will keep building toward it, including through further acquisitions that strengthen what we can offer customers,” Gatehouse Satcom CEO Kenney Schmidt Christiansen said.
