Technical DREAM payload organizations include Fossa Systems, Hawaii Science and Technology Museum, Purdue University, and the United States Marine Corps Warfighting Lab.
Swarm filed an FCC license application on 2019-03-01 under Part 25 of Title 47 to offer service for 1 million devices throughout the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, all U.S. territories and possessions, and all U.S. territorial waters.
Darren McKnight of Centauri presented a concluding talk at the Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies (AMOS) conference in Wailea, Hawaii on 2019-09-20.
Iridium plans to invest around $10–12 million over the next three years to upgrade a gateway station in Hawaii dedicated to U.S. government services.
Viasat’s Real-Time Earth service provided satellite commissioning activities and subsequent operations for the Orbital Test Bed from two U.S. ground stations, one in Georgia and one in Hawaii.
Innovative Solutions In Space will provide the HyTI platform while the Hawaii Space Flight Laboratory will complete payload integration and flight preparation.
The Hawaii Space Flight Laboratory was established in 2007 within the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology and the College of Engineering at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
The Hawaii Space Flight Laboratory enables the University of Hawaii and other organizations to design, build, launch, and operate microsatellites in the 1–150 kg range configurable for various science and educational objectives.
Iridium disclosed to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it received the Hawaii ground station contract at least a month before 2019-04-22.
Iridium received a separate Defense Department contract renewal worth up to $54,000,000 to upgrade a government-dedicated ground station in Hawaii.