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HawkEye 360 Awards Manufacturing Contract to UTIAS SFL

HawkEye 360 awarded the manufacturing business to support customer demand,” expand our constellation for faster revisit
contract for its next generation of said John Serafini, Chief Executive Officer, rates, which translates into better insights
satellites the University of Toronto HawkEye 360. “These next-generation for a safer world across maritime, air, and
Institute for Aerospace Studies Space satellites will improve our capabilities and land domains.”
Flight Laboratory (UTIAS SFL). Enabled
by HawkEye 360’s $70 million Series B
financing in August, this contract aims
to substantially boost on-orbit capacity
to serve the company’s rapidly growing
customer base. The contract will expand
the constellation to 18 satellites, achieving
routine revisits of less than an hour for
increased global persistence. UTIAS SFL
will manufacture the bus and integrate
the new Radio Frequency (RF) payload
developed by HawkEye 360. The satellites
aim to geolocate more signals across
a wider frequency range with improved
accuracy and reduced data latency for
more timely delivery to customers. “After
proving the value and accuracy of our
first satellites and securing the Series B
investment, we are now quickly scaling our

Hughes Launches Nationwide Internet Service in Mexico

Hughes Network Systems, launched in the country, including in areas where country can enjoy the fast, reliable internet
HughesNet in Mexico, its flagship high- other internet services are not available service used by more than 1.4 million
speed satellite internet service. The today. HughesNet service in Mexico offers customers throughout the Americas,” said
introduction of HughesNet marks the speeds of 25 Megabits Per Second (Mbps) Vinod Shukla, Chairman, HNS de Mexico
expansion of Hughes’ presence in Mexico, for downloads and 3 Mbps for uploads. S.A. de C.V. “In Mexico — even in areas
where the company offers commercial With the launch of HughesNet service in where fiber and cable services are not
enterprise and government services, Mexico, approximately 95 percent of the available — internet access is now possible
through its partner Star Group/StarGo. population will have access to internet through HughesNet.”
Beginning October 1, HughesNet will service – even in rural areas. “Now, with the
deliver internet access virtually everywhere launch of HughesNet, everyone across the

Kacific Hired to Deploy Satellite Broadband in French Polynesia

Singapore-based Kacific has been selected Islands and the Austral Islands will be and sparsely populated islands of French
to supply French Polynesia with a satellite able to receive high speed internet access. Polynesia will have the opportunity to
broadband solution using its soon-to-be- Christian Patouraux, founder and CEO of connect to broadband internet. And the
commissioned Kacific1 satellite. As such, Kacific, commented: ‘I created Kacific to connection will be maintained permanently,
by 2020 around 276,000 people across the allow everyone to access the internet in regardless of the possible problems related
Society Islands, the Tuamotu Archipelago, the Pacific Islands … With our new Kacific1 to the terrestrial fiber network.’
the Gambier Islands, the Marquesas satellite, even people living on the remote

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