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Omnispace Selects Thales Alenia Space to Develop Satellite Infrastructure

Omnispace, the company that is (the 3rd Generation Partnership Project non terrestrial network (NTN)," said Ram
reinventing mobile communications telecommunications specifications that Viswanathan, President and CEO of
by building a global hybrid network, unite standard development organizations) Omnispace LLC. "This investment in our
announced it has selected Thales Alenia Narrow-Band IoT radio interface and will next-generation satellite infrastructure
Space, a joint venture between Thales serve to advance the development and allows us to progress the development
(67%) and Leonardo (33%), to develop the implementation of Omnispace's global of our technology and demonstrate our
initial component of its satellite-based hybrid network. This announcement marks unique capabilities as we continue to work
Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure. a key milestone as Omnispace initiates towards launching our broader vision of
This will advance Omnispace's vision to the development of its new generation a global hybrid network." "Thales Alenia
deliver a global hybrid communications NGSO satellite constellation which will Space is pleased to be working with
network based on 3GPP standards. Thales operate in the S-band. "Thales Alenia Omnispace, which is taking a holistic
Alenia Space will design and build an Space has a successful track record of approach to the design, development and
initial set of two satellites for operation developing NGSO satellite constellations deployment of their next-generation, IoT-
in non-geostationary orbit (NGSO). These and is well-qualified to support our vision based satellite network infrastructure,"
initial satellites will support 3GPP-defined of delivering the world's first global 5G said Hervé Derrey, CEO of Thales Alenia
Space. "Omnispace's selection of Thales
Alenia Space reinforces our leadership
position as a major industrial partner
and our expertise in space-based IoT
communications. We look forward to
collaborating with Omnispace in delivering
this innovative project." The development
of this initial set of satellites will begin
immediately and they are scheduled for
launch in 2021. Omnispace and Thales
Alenia Space, along-side other industry
stakeholders, will contribute to the
development of the 3GPP NTN friendly
standard for global implementation.

Spacecom Signs C-Band Contract With Czech Telco GiTy

Spacecom has signed a multi-year con- raeli satellite operator’s High-Throughput mance and capabilities provide us with
tract with Czech Republic-based telecom Satellite (HTS) satellite designed to meet an excellent solution for our very specific
service provider GiTy for C-band capacity Africa’s fast-growing communication de- needs, GiTy Network Operations Direc-
on the AMOS-17 communication satellite mands. It has C-Band HTS, Ka-Band and tor Radek Ondras said. “Partnering with
in order to deliver connectivity to embas- Ku-Band capabilities, and supports con- Spacecom since as early as AMOS-3 , we
sies across Africa, the companies an- nectivity between Africa, the Middle East, are confident they will provide us with high
nounced Tuesday. AMOS-17, which was Europe, India, and China. “AMOS-17’s po- quality, personalized and reliable satellite
launched by SpaceX in April 2019, is the Is- sition over Africa and it’s unique perfor- communication services.”

Five Countries Send Proposals to Make KazSat-2R Satellite to Kazakhstan

Spacecraft producers from Russia, order for the satellite will be placed with Italy, the US and Turkey," the press service
France, Italy, the United States and Turkey Ghalam company, which will develop it said. The planned budget for design,
sent technical proposals on making the with a foreign producer of spacecraft, development and ground tests of the
Kazakh telecom satellite KazSat-2R, possessing required engineering solutions spacecraft amounted to 39.65 bln tenge
press service of the Kazakh Ministry of and competencies. Technical and ($91.6 mln). As reported earlier, KazSat-
Digital Development, Innovations and commercial proposals were received from 2R development work is planned to start
Aerospace Industry told TASS. "The spacecraft producers from Russia, France, in 2020.

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