Tag: IoT
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OQ Technology Announces Upcoming MACSAT Launch Aboard Arianespace’s Vega Rocket
Fresh from a successful €13 million Series A funding round, OQ Technology, one of the leading 5G IoT satellite operators, has announced the forthcoming MACSAT launch with Arianespace’s Vega on 4th October 2023 (mission VV23). This pivotal step will further fortify its space and ground infrastructure, as well as expand its satellite coverage. OQ Technology’s…
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FOSSA Systems Signs a Contract with Momentus for Hosted Payload Services
Momentus, a U.S. commercial space company that offers satellite buses, transportation, and other in-space infrastructure services, has signed a contract with FOSSA Systems, a Spanish company that offers global low-power Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity and in-space services to provide hosted payload services starting in 2024. The contract also includes two options for additional hosted…
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U.S. Space Force Awards IDIQ Contract to Hughes for Proliferated LEO Satellite Services
Hughes Network Systems, an EchoStar company, announced that it has been awarded a five-year, Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the U.S. Space Force for proliferated Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite-based services. Under the IDIQ vehicle, valued at up to $900 million, the U.S. Department of Defense, other federal agencies and international coalition partners…
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DCUBED Announces World-First In-Space Manufacturing Demonstration Mission
DCUBED, the German NewSpace hardware manufacturer, has announced that it is to demonstrate in-space manufacturing as part of a demonstration mission expected in Q1 2024. This will be the first time ever that a product has been manufactured in free space. The demonstration will see the production of a roughly 30-centimetre, 3D-printed truss structure, and is…
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ISRO Successfully Launches Seven Singaporean Satellites as Part of Commercial Mission
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced the successful launch of PSLV-C56 carrying the DS-SAR satellite, along with 6 other satellites from the first launch pad of SDSC-SHAR, Sriharikota on July 30, 2023. The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), PSLV-C56 was configured in its core-alone mode, similar to that of C55. It launched DS-SAR, a…
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Airbus Partners with Astrocast to Enhance Satellite IoT Technology
Astrocast, a satellite IoT operator, announced the extension of its partnership with Airbus Defence and Space, a global leader in the aerospace industry. This partnership enhances the capabilities of satellite Internet of Things (SatIoT) technology. It enables Astrocast to further increase its network capacity to provide the most reliable and cost-effective SatIoT solutions to its…
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OQ Technology Awarded €1.1 Million Contract by ESA to Build Three Advanced Nanosatellites
OQ Technology has been successfully awarded a € 1.1 Million contract to design, build, integrate, test, and demonstrate three advanced nanosatellites featuring multiple payloads providing space-based 5G narrowband internet-of-things communications services, an optical communications link, as well as hyperspectral Earth observation data to support precision agriculture as part of the ERMIS mission. ERMIS [Hellenic Cubesat…
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Quectel Unveils New CC660D-LS Module with Satellite and IoT-NTN Capabilities
Quectel Wireless Solutions, a global IoT solutions provider, unveiled its latest innovation in satellite communications, the CC660D-LS module, designed specifically to ensure comprehensive global coverage for seamless connectivity. The CC660D-LS module offers versatile connectivity options, including L-band, S-band, and Band 23 connections. In addition, the module supports 3GPP Release 17 IoT non-terrestrial network (IoT-NTN) connections.…
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EchoStar Selected by Seven European IoT Solution Providers for Real-Time Satellite IoT Connectivity
EchoStar Corporation announced that seven leading European Internet of Things (IoT) service providers have signed multi-year commercial agreements to develop and sell IoT solutions using EchoStar Mobile’s Pan-European, satellite-based, LoRa-enabled IoT network. The customers, API-K, Cyric, DalesLandNet, Dryad, Galaxy1, ProEsys, and Symes are leveraging the real-time network to enable massive IoT deployments for applications such…
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Rohde & Schwarz Collaborates with Qualcomm to Test GSO and GEO Satellite Chipsets for IoT-NTN
Rohde & Schwarz, in collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies, will conduct a broad range of NB-IoT over NTN tests that address the many challenges inherent to satellite-based non-terrestrial networks that use geosynchronous orbit (GSO) and geostationary orbit (GEO) constellations. The test set covers time and frequency synchronization from prolonged delays and the Doppler effect, low signal-to-interference-plus-noise…