CesiumAstro completed shipment of a compact inter-satellite link communication system to NASA’s Ames Research Center to support testing of mobile networking technologies for swarm missions.
Advanced students can program custom maneuvers for the swarm using Scratch, Swift, and Python.
Swarm announced commercial services on 2021-02-09 when its constellation reached 81 satellites in space.
Swarm raised a $25,000,000 Series A funding round shortly after the FCC fine.
Swarm launched satellites in March 2018 without FCC approval.
Swarm was fined $900,000 over five years for launching satellites without prior FCC approval.
Swarm plans to finish establishing a constellation of 150 commercial satellites by the end of the year to provide continuous global coverage.
Customers pay $119 for Swarm Tiles satellite data modems and $5 per device per month for Swarm service.
A LayerX customer previously paid about 450 New Zealand dollars (about $324) for a satellite communications service that costs about 15 New Zealand dollars on Swarm’s network.
Omnispace is competing with satellite IoT companies including Astrocast, Kepler, and Swarm, and those companies have already launched satellites and started offering services.
Swarm plans to deploy a total of 150 commercial satellites by the end of 2021 to reduce latency to less than one minute.
Swarm launched 36 SpaceBee satellites on Transporter-1 by working with two different payload aggregators.
PABLO AIR is pursuing projects in drone swarm technology-based logistics, disaster monitoring, and smart city environmental monitoring.
The company has expertise in developing drone swarm platforms and related solutions.
Swarm’s first 12 commercial satellites were launched on 2020-09-02 from French Guiana onboard a Vega rocket.
RBC Signals plans to activate and host additional Swarm antennas in strategic global locations.
The antennas hosted by RBC Signals will support Swarm’s next wave of satellites.
Swarm’s 150-unit constellation is expected to be fully operational and provide continuous global coverage by the end of 2021.
Swarm Tile, Swarm’s satellite modem, carries a $119 price tag and is built around a single printed circuit board intended for embedding into devices.
More than 200 companies have signed up for early access to Swarm’s network, including Autonomic, a Ford Smart Mobility subsidiary that creates software for connected cars.