Lacuna Space is a UK and Dutch company recognized as a leader in scalable direct-to-satellite IoT solutions, utilizing the LoRaWAN standard. They develop IoT Space Gateways to receive and share data from battery-powered sensors in remote areas, enabling applications in agriculture, maritime, logistics, and environmental monitoring. Key partners include Spire Global, who builds and launches their satellites, ESA and the UK Space Agency who have provided funding and support. Lacuna Space provides ubiquitous low-power, low-cost connectivity to extend the limited coverage of terrestrial LoRaWAN networks.
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Semtech Corporation is collaborating with Lacuna Space to increase coverage and resilience of LoRaWAN connectivity.
Other companies that launched IoT satellites 2021-03-22 include Fleet Space Technologies, Kepler Communications, Hiber, and Lacuna Space.
Oxford Space Systems provided the deployable antenna that sits on top of Lacuna Space’s IoT satellite receiver and can receive short messages directly from small battery-powered ground devices.
Sustainability Tech is partnering with Lacuna Space to produce satellite-connected sensors that monitor wetland hydrology.
Interco Cloud, an IT integrator based in Colombia, is working with Lacuna Space to develop forest monitoring services across Latin America.
Lacuna Space launched its fourth IoT gateway satellite into low Earth orbit on the PSLV-C49 mission from India on 2020-11-07.
The satellite payload and mission is a modified Internet-of-Things Gateway built by Lacuna Space.
Lacuna Space completed on-orbit tests of its latest satellite on 2020-11-03 after launching the satellite on 2020-09-28 into low Earth orbit at about 500 km above Earth.
NanoAvionics of Lithuania supplied the bus for Lacuna Space’s first prototype payload.
Lacuna Space is fully funded through mid-2021.
Lacuna Space will trial services with its prototype satellites to decide on a constellation manufacturer in late 2020.
Lacuna Space plans to start some revenue-generating services in 2020 and will seek to raise about $5,500,000 before then.
Semtech Corporation, a semiconductor and software company based in Camarillo, California with more than $600,000,000 in net sales, is helping Lacuna Space link LoRa-based devices directly to satellite gateways.
Lacuna Space plans to select from its prototype builders for the full 32-satellite global constellation.
Lacuna Space plans to operate its satellites at orbital altitudes around 500 to 550 km.
Lacuna Space agreed in July to purchase another NanoAvionics M6P nanosatellite bus that it plans to launch in the fourth quarter of 2019.
Blink Astro and Lacuna Space launched payloads on NanoAvionics’ M6P nanosatellite buses in April.