Focus: Ground Systems

As Chair of the SATELLITE conference, I am privileged to get an exciting behind-the-scenes view into the planning process that happens in the months leading to the event. The following […]

Boeing awarded a contract to Hughes Network Systems to develop mission management, system control, networking and ground hub capabilities supporting anti-jam satellite communications capability for the Air Force’s Protected Tactical […]

Iridium Communications unveiled its new southern hemisphere ground station, located in Punta Arenas, Chile. The addition of the Punta Arenas teleport network site adds geographic diversity to Iridium’s ground stations as […]

Leidos awarded DataPath, a provider of communications solutions, a prime contract to provide software and integration support to a communications program located in the Antarctic. Leidos provides logistical support to the […]

PSSI Global Services and Sydney Teleport Services (STS) have collaborated to establish a gateway between PSSI International Teleport (PIT) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the STS teleport in Sydney, Australia. This […]

U.K.-based communications services hub Goonhilly Earth Station entered into an agreement with a fellow startup launch facility, Shetland Space Center (SSC), to jointly promote and deliver launch, monitoring, and tracking capabilities, […]

Infostellar and Teledyne Paradise Datacom (Paradise) revealed the interoperability of Infostellar’s ground station sharing platform, StellarStation, with the QubeFlex Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite modem — a flagship product of […]

Goonhilly Earth Station has been making waves, quite literally, with its deep space antennas. The U.K.-based “gateway to space” has been around since the 1960s, but its new leadership team […]

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 […]

Speedcast International has been awarded multi-year contracts in multiple countries to enhance existing global services for Schlumberger, an oilfield services provider. The improvements include equipment and network upgrades leveraging modem and […]

Cubic‘s Mission Solutions business division deployed its Ground Antenna Transmit and Receive (GATR) satcom and networking systems, as well as personnel, to support Florida’s hurricane disaster recovery efforts. Partnering with […]

  Raytheon’s Next-Generation Operational Control System (GPS OCX) completed a round of testing, preparing the program for its use on the GPS III launch next month. The tests were cybersecurity […]

Gilat Satellite Networks will provide its ground network for China Satcom‘s ChinaSat-18 (CS-18). The nationwide Ka-band coverage, now to be provided by CS-18 and ChinaSat-16 (CS-16), will be supported by […]

Goonhilly opened an office in Farnborough, Hampshire, in the U.K. in support of its plans to expand its consultancy, design engineering, and small-scale manufacturing capabilities. The new site gives Goonhilly more […]

Thales Alenia Space has won a key new contract from the European Commission (EC), the company announced October 9. The contract will see Thales develop and build an operational ground […]

Axesat achieved provisional certification of its Bogota, Colombia Teleport under the World Teleport Association‘s (WTA) Teleport Certification Program. Axesat’s teleports offer business services including internet, voice, data, contingency and backup […]

LeoLabs, a commercial provider of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) mapping and Space Situational Awareness (SSA) services, has agreed to build its next space radar in New Zealand. This establishes New […]

Hughes Network Systems has completed the initial deployment and implementation of an approximately 260-site global managed network for an unnamed multinational organization. The network extends from the organization’s European headquarters […]

ThinKom Solutions and Telesat will jointly develop a Ka-band enterprise user terminal for Telesat’s planned Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation of satellites. As an initial step in the process, ThinKom’s […]

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has received $3 million in contract awards for design and build of two Ku-Band Earth stations for an unnamed customer. Kratos will deliver two Ku-band […]

Boeing will invest in BridgeSat, an optical communications solutions company working to enable the future of connectivity in space through a network of ground stations and proprietary space terminals. BridgeSat […]