A Lite Coms terminal has received certification to work with the SES O3b Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) constellation. Lite Coms said that its Lite Sat 2.2A terminal is the only Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) to be certified for both U.S. Army Strategic Command (ARSTRAT) and O3b MEO.  This is a VSAT geared toward military use.…

Kymeta and Comtech EF Data Corp. have formed a technology partnership to pair the Kymeta u8 mobility terminal with Comtech a modem. The companies announced Tuesday that the u8 terminal is interoperable with Comtech’s SLM-5650B modem, using open-source standard Open Antenna to Modem Interface Protocol (OpenAMIP) for antenna-router integration. This pairing is aimed at expanding…

SES Government Solutions and Isotropic Systems have completed two antenna trials with the U.S. military. These trials are part of the DEUCSI program — Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet — a Department of Defense (DoD) initiative to test broadband from commercial constellations in Non-Geostationary Orbit (NGSO).  The U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Army…

UK-based terminal developer Isotropic Systems received an investment of more than 18.5 million euros ($22.5 million) from the UK Space Agency to co-fund the company's activity in the European Space Agency's (ESA) Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems (ARTES) C&G program. The ARTES program gives European satcom companies the resources they need to turn concepts into…