Astranis Begins Final Assembly of Alaska Satellite Following Successful Test of Software-Defined Radio Payload
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Astranis, the company building the next generation of telecommunications satellites, announced today that it has begun final assembly of its satellite for Alaska.
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- Astranis, the company building the next generation of telecommunications satellites, announced today that it has begun final assembly of its satellite for Alaska.
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Beginning final assembly is an important milestone in the manufacturing of Astraniss first commercial satellite, and follows a successful end-to-end payload test that showed a capacity 20% greater than the spec. - The Astranis Software-Defined Radio is a proprietary technology entirely designed, built, and space-qualified by Astranis over the past four years.
- PDI is launching the Astranis GEO HTS satellite as part of the Aurora project designed to bring broadband to all of Alaska.