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UK satco Open Cosmos lands role in national defence comms push
UK-based satellite scaleup to provide space-based connectivity for national defence network. CEO Rafel Jordà Siquier says the contract marks “stamp of approval” for its strategy, as the satco seeks to expand beyond Earth observation and into the direct-to-device comms sector.
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.
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