Focus: Ground Systems

Viasat has opened a new ground station for its Real-Time Earth (RTE) service in Hokkaido, Japan, hosted at Infostellar’s site. Viasat said the new 7.3 meter, Ka-band antenna will support high data rate remote sensing missions in polar and inclined orbits through the RTE network. Viasat’s ground-station-as-a-service provides a fully managed ground network. The RTE...

Orbit Communications Systems has unveiled cybersecurity enhancements for its Gaia100 Earth observation (EO) systems. The company announced Aug. 3 that it is introducing NetShroud+ for these systems. The NetShroud+ solution protects the remotely located ground stations from potential local or remote cyber-attacks in order to guarantee that the antenna will point to the Low-Earth Orbit...

Ground segment service provider Leaf Space raised 20 million euros ($22 million) in a Series B round announced July 25. The company also took on a 15 million euro ($17 million) loan from the European Investment Bank of venture debt.  CDP Venture Capital Sgr (through Fondo Evoluzione) and Neva Sgr led the round, with participation...

Ovzon announced the Ovzon T7, a new mobile satellite terminal designed for military, civil defense, police, and emergency services. It is a rugged terminal that weighs only 2.8 kg and is 17 cm square. The company said the T7 has demonstrated that it can transmit 10 Mbps and receive 60 Mbps on current Ovzon networks....

Fairwinds Technologies awarded Comtech a $30 million contract for its Troposcatter family of systems (FOS) to support U.S. Army tactical communications. Comtech announced the award on July 13.  Fairwinds is a tech systems integrator. The contract was made through the NASA solutions for enterprise-wide procurement (SEWP) V catalog. CEO Ken Peterman said this order makes...

Goonhilly Earth Station will support three upcoming lunar and deep space missions with organizations in India and the U.S., as it looks to showcase its capabilities as a commercial deep space ground station. The company announced this support, July 14. The company has looked to forge partnerships with international space agencies to advance space exploration...

Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) has signed a new deal with a university and a company in Latvia. The company announced July 13 that it will partner with Ventspils University of Applied Sciences (VUAS) and VIRATEC, adding the VUAS large antennas to the SSC Connect network. This will increase SSC’s capability to support a wide range...

Satellite technology company hiSky recently shared two updates to its technology, introducing the Falcon ASIC modem-on-chip which is ready for mass production, and FCC certification for its Smartellite Fixed KA terminal.  The Falcon ASIC modem-on-chip is designed to be integrated in hiSky’s next generation of Smartellite terminals and is op timized for mass production. The...

The European Space Agency (ESA) awarded GMV a contract worth more than 200 million euros ($218 million) to develop the ground segment for in-orbit control and validation of the Galileo Second Generation (G2G). Galileo is Europe’s global navigation satellite system. GMV will contract out core G2G activities, for a value of around 155 million euros...

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...