Cockpit view of Blue Sky Network’s SkyRouter. Photo: Blue Sky Network.

Blue Sky Network (BSN) — a provider of satellite tracking, data, and communication solutions— acquired Applied Satellite Engineering (ASE), a designer and manufacturer of advanced satellite communication equipment.

“Our combined offerings will now give our customers even more options with solutions for maritime, land, machine-to-machine (M2M), push-to-talk, and anti-piracy applications,” said BSN President Gregoire Demory.

“We are thrilled to strengthen our combined reseller channels with ASE while adding locations in Arizona and Ireland. ASE can now leverage our fleet management and data analytics portal to offer connectivity health monitoring and surveillance oversight for advanced M2M and resilience systems globally,” added BSN CEO Kambiz Aghili.

Both BSN and ASE have been Iridium value added manufacturers since 2004 and will continue to develop innovative products and services leveraging Certus, the new multi-service platform powered by the Iridium Next constellation.