An All.Space Hydra 2 terminal mounted on a Defender vehicle. Photo: All.Space

All.Space is rolling out a new dual-beam satcom terminal capable of holding wideband connections on two or more independent Ka-band satellite networks at the same time.

The Hydra Max Ka-band terminal is designed to be compatible with the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) U.S. military network, SES’s O3b mPOWER, Viasat 3 & GX, and upcoming Ka-band constellations Amazon Kuiper and Telesat Lightspeed.

“We’ve supercharged [the terminal] to give a Ka capability that wide, instantaneous bandwidth,” CTO John-Paul Szczepanik told Via Satellite. “It unlocks being able to access Amazon Kuiper as well as Telesat Lightspeed, and you need instantaneous bandwidth to do that. You have to be able to operate across the 400 to 500 MHz on those networks. It also unlocks Viasat-3.” 

“It’s really augmenting, adding additional networks that this single terminal can access,” he added. “The ultimate goal is to access every network, and we’re on a good path to do that.” 

The company says Hydra MAX can deliver 500MHz of instantaneous bandwidth per beam for a total of 1GHz of aggregate bandwidth across the commercial & military Ka-bands, from one 86 cm on-the-move terminal.

While this terminal works across a suite of Ka-band networks, Szczepanik says All.Space is advancing on a product called “Hydra KuKa,” which would connect across both Ku- and Ka-band satellite networks simultaneously.

Szczepanik said the company completed proof-of-concept demonstrations in September 2024 and a preliminary design review (PDR) with a key customer in May 2025. This next-generation terminal would allow for interoperability across every major satellite network, including SpaceX’s Starlink. 

“It allows you to access the Starlink network from that terminal from the same aperture as you’re accessing Kuiper,” Szczepanik said of the terminal in development. “It’s a really small form factor, and all of that is done while on the move. You could do that in the harshest of conditions on the back of a Stryker vehicle, or a Humvee or Defender — bumping around over potholes and trenches at 60 miles an hour.” 

The need for a terminal to operate across multiple networks is driven by U.S. military customers. “We have two key programs with the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy and they are making sure that we have good relationships and are able to work with all of the key operators,” he said. 

The multi-beam capabilities lend themselves to the defense market’s need for resiliency, but Szczepanik says it has applications in the commercial world as well. 

“There’s two angles to it. One is the high-end enterprise solutions, oil and gas, and particularly unmanned sea vessels [USVs]. Aero is something that we’ve had our sights on for a long time. We focused on land and maritime and defense first, but we’re now just starting to develop the aero solution moving forward. It’s something that we’re going to be focusing on in the next one to two years.” 

All.Space’s terminal technology is based on transformational optics and digital beamforming, which the company has demonstrated multiple times in recent years. The company was formerly known as Isotropic Systems.

Because the Hydra Max has a similar production process to the existing Hydra 2 terminal, Szczepanik said production capability is already in place. All.Space is based in the U.K., but has also been establishing production capabilities in the United States, which Szczepanik said has been a benefit for the tariff situation. 

“Even at the beginning of the year before the tariff saga kicked off, we had taken the decision and already started to transfer the manufacturing into the U.S. to serve the U.S. market,” he said. “We were already ahead of the game and able to adapt to that challenge. From a tariff perspective, we weren’t significantly impacted because we were manufacturing in the U.S. already.”

Correction: A previous version of this article misstated the company’s former name. All.Space was formerly Isotropic Systems.