Mantis Space is developing technology to beam solar power from one satellite to another.
ALL.SPACE’s electronically steered terminal technology uses beam steering with no moving parts to improve reliability and survivability in harsh operating conditions.
SpaceX’s second-generation Starlink satellites use 20 by 20 MHz beams to provide four times the bandwidth per beam.
The test demonstrated that a high-orbit relay satellite can beam back large volumes of data sent by multiple spacecraft in lower or nearby orbits.
Northwood Space has deployed a multi-beam phased array system called Portal.
Capgemini’s Intelligent Beam-Hopping Solution debuted at MWC Barcelona 2025.
Customers utilizing Capgemini’s Intelligent Beam-Hopping framework in 2025 achieved research-and-development cost savings of 20 to 25 percent compared to alternative options.
Cloudchaser’s two-beam support enables make-before-break handovers and two simultaneous links across satellites, orbits, and networks.
Capgemini developed an Intelligent Beam-Hopping Solution to automate satellite beam-hopping for 5G non-terrestrial networks.
Aetherflux is pursuing Department of Defense contracts to beam power for remote installations using a constellation of orbital data centers called the Galactic Brain.
Overview Energy plans to build a constellation of hundreds of thousands of satellites in geostationary orbit to beam power to multiple terrestrial regions.
Aetherflux is developing a proprietary laser system intended to beam data between Earth and its orbital GPUs.
A laser communication beam can focus on a ground spot of roughly 300 meters in diameter.
A global shortage of heavy-ion testing facilities has created a 5,000-hour annual deficit in beam-time at premier labs such as the NASA Space Radiation Laboratory and CERN.
Rapid electronic beam steering in the Sidewinder antenna improves link reliability and reduces moving parts compared to mechanically steered systems.
The Sidewinder electronically steered antenna uses rapid electronic beam steering to acquire and track satellites.
NASA's Voyager and Pioneer missions provided six radio-beam measurements used to infer Jupiter's shape almost five decades ago.
Bob Potter said Global Invacom is pursuing standards for control and data-plane interfaces to enable multi-network joining and beam-hopping.
Global Invacom’s XY terminal provides connectivity to any of the four major orbit types and includes electronic pole switching for flexible beam switching under interference.
The system design combines advanced beam-forming techniques with high-gain antenna systems to maintain reliable links between a fast-moving high-altitude aircraft and multiple ground nodes.