UK satco Open Cosmos lands role in national defence comms push

This article includes:

• Organisations: Accenture Ventures; A&G; Airbus Defence and Space; Banco Santander; BGF Ventures; Claret Capital Partners; Entrepreneur First; ETF Partners; European Space Agency; Government Commercial Agency (GCA); Indra; LocalGlobe; Ministry of Defence (MoD); OQ Technology; Open Cosmos; OpenConstellation; Rocket Lab; Sateliot; SES; Starlink; Trill Impact; UK Government.
• Geographies: Americas; Europe; Greece; Luxembourg; Portugal; Spain; United Kingdom (UK).
• People: Charlie Songhurst; Rafel Jordà Siquier; Taavet Hinrikus.
• Themes: Architecture design; broadband; climate change; components; ConnectedCosmos; data security; data sovereignty; defence communications; direct-to-device (D2D); Earth observation; emergency services; environmental monitoring; evaluation; hardware; high interoperability; IoT; IT solutions; Ka-band spectrum; LEO constellation; low-Earth orbit (LEO); manufacturing facility; maritime tracking; military communications; near real-time transmission; network integration; optical inter-satellite links (ISL); secure communications; services; ship-to-shore connectivity; sovereign satellite network; space sovereignty; subsea infrastructure; systems; systems integration; tactical ground connectivity; telecoms expansion; testing; training; vertically integrated space infrastructure.