WideNorth AS, a major Norwegian player in signal processing and satellite communication, has reached a significant milestone with the successful commercialisation of its Payload Data Handling and Transmitter (PDHT) based on Software Defined Radio. Developed under the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems (ARTES) programme, this payload is now a powerful candidate for all those missions requiring both high downlink rates and high data storage capacity.

A Belgian company specialising in cloud-based solutions for the telecommunications industry - neXat - has recently presented its newly developed product, neXat Satellite Services Aggregation Platform (neXat SAP) for the management of satellite connectivity. Featuring the capabilities of operations support system (OSS), business support system (BSS) as well as a virtual teleport functionality, the product has earned awards and recognition for offering an end-to-end managed service as the first and only satellite specific, cloud-based platform of its kind on the market.

In another win for public-private cooperation between the European Space Agency (ESA) and an international company – Viasat plans to commercialise its new in-flight connectivity terminal technology.

The two organisations have signed a Memorandum of Intent (MoI) to collaborate on developing integrated 6G terrestrial and satellite networks.