Phase two will use Isotropic Systems’ optical lens technology to demonstrate a two full-performance-beam connection, with one beam linking to an SES geostationary (GEO) satellite and one beam linking to SES’s O3b MEO satellite constellation.
SES Government Solutions and Isotropic Systems signed a two-phased antenna evaluation contract with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory in collaboration with the U.S. Army Research Engineering Team to test Isotropic Systems’ multi-beam terminal over SES’s O3b MEO constellation.
Airbus expects the Galileo second-generation satellites to be a significantly different system with upgraded technologies including payload processing, beam forming networks, active antennas, and electric propulsion on a larger platform.
The DVE application communicates with the Viasat modem and Quality of Service (QoS)-enabled router to manage bandwidth changes and congested links during beam-to-beam transitions.
Eutelsat Quantum features a Ku-band electronically steerable multi-beam antenna built in Spain with support from the Spanish government’s Center for Industrial Technological Development.
QinetiQ provides high-performance materials fabrication capabilities to support Isotropic Systems’ optical multi-beam terminals.
Isotropic Systems’ terminal roadmap aims to achieve a multi-beam, multi-frequency antenna capable of using capacity in GEO, LEO, and MEO satellite orbits.
The Space Development Agency and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will test optical communications terminals that use lasers to beam data across space.
Isotropic Systems and SES entered a new developmental phase of their partnership in March 2020 to produce scalable, cost-effective multi-beam customer edge terminal antennas for the O3b mPOWER system.
Many upcoming trials beginning in March 2020 will focus on maximising the effectiveness of the circuits behind the optical beam-forming lens modules used in Isotropic Systems’ adaptable multi-beam antenna.
Aeronautical and defense system integrators licensing Isotropic Systems’ multi-beam antenna technologies planned integration of patented lens modules and chipsets throughout 2020 with trials set for the first half of 2021.
Jeremy Turpin is leading the design and development of Isotropic Systems’ high throughput optical multi-beam antennas.
Isotropic Systems’ optical beam-forming lens modules and chipset are capable of enabling a new era of connected commercial and government mobility on land, at sea, and in the air.
Bigelow Aerospace secured a NASA contract in 2013 to build the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) for the International Space Station.
The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) launched in April 2016 on a cargo resupply mission and was installed on the International Space Station in May 2016.
In October 2017 NASA extended its agreement with Bigelow Aerospace to keep BEAM on the International Space Station for at least five more years to conduct additional tests and use it for cargo storage.
Intelsat-39 carries a mix of wide-beam transponders and high-throughput spot beams to provide additional capacity over Africa, Asia, and Europe.
Saturn Satellite Networks aims to achieve a cost per gigabit of under $1,000,000 for its high-throughput spot-beam nationsat models.
The 3.7 GHz to 4.2 GHz band comprises 500 megahertz of C-band spectrum used by satellite operators to beam television channels and other content in the United States.
Cloud Constellation plans to use geostationary satellites at about 36,0 m as relays to beam data to and from customers on the ground.