Focus: Terrestrial Connectivity
July 8, 2019
What does it mean when people say that the satellite industry is becoming more “software-defined?” Does it mean that physical infrastructure is being replaced with more flexible, adaptive software? Does it mean that the satellite industry is becoming a lot more like the software industry? Or both? In this episode of On Orbit, we interview Kratos…
June 11, 2019
Viasat revealed its plans to launch a Real-Time Earth (RTE) facility in Alice Springs, Australia. Viasat has partnered with the Center for Appropriate Technology Ltd (CfAT), an Aboriginal not-for-profit science and technology company based in Alice Springs, which will build and own the facility through its wholly-owned commercial subsidiary CfAT Satellite Enterprises Pty Ltd, and Indigenous…
March 6, 2019
Sinclair Technologies, a division of Norsat International, and a provider of land mobile radio communication solutions, launched the TRANSeo series of mobile antennas for transportation applications. The TRANSeon series are vehicle/transit antennas, which cover all the frequency bands for Very High Frequency (VHF), Ultra High Frequency (UHF), 2G/2.5G/3G/4G, and Wi-Fi communications between 100 MHz and 6…
December 17, 2018
Globalstar revealed that the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has approved a global standard for terrestrial use of Globalstar’s spectrum at 2483.5-2495 Megahertz. 3GPP has designated Globalstar’s terrestrial S-band as Band 53, which now permits LTE services in the U.S. with additional geographies expected to be added in 2019. The approval provides for Time Division Duplex (TDD)…