Focus: Ground Systems

Ball Aerospace successfully completed the first communication demonstration between Telesat‘s Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Phase 1 satellite and Ball’s fully electronically-steered flat panel antenna at Telesat’s Allan Park ground station...

China HEAD Aerospace Technology Co. and its subsidiary HEAD Technology France (HEAD), has been awarded a key multi-million Euro contract in Ethiopia through a consortium led by HEAD and its...

With the support of specialists from Istar, the Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) successfully completed the installation and commissioning of five central stations. These stations use UHP equipment to provide...

High Throughout Satellite (HTS) systems have brought unprecedented flexibility and bandwidth to the marketplace, but the new capability comes at a price: increased network complexity that will require innovation on...

NSR released its VSAT and Broadband Satellite Markets 17th Edition report, in which it predicts cumulative market revenue of $159 billion in the next decade. The report also predicts 13.4 percent...

Axelspace selected the SKY Perfect JSAT and Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) joint ground station service for its GRUS satellite, a commercial Japanese optical Earth observation satellite. The launch of the GRUS-1 satellite is...

General Dynamics Mission Systems and a NASA team successfully completed the final laboratory System Acceptance Test (SAT) of NASA’s Space Network Ground Segment Sustainment (SGSS) project. The test took place at the...

Ball Aerospace was selected to build an adaptable, open-source framework testbed to support ground processing needs for the U.S. Air Force‘s Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC). This prototype works...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) revealed its new AWS Ground Station program, which will take advantage of Lockheed Martin‘s new Verge antenna network. Through this integration, customers using AWS Ground Station gain the...

Hughes Defense Systems has subcontracted GetSAT’s MilliSAT L/W terminal as the beyond line of sight (BLOS) SatCom component for the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Airborne Communications network, supporting Intelligence, Surveillance and...