Satellite-based communications businesses have been making news recently, including a brand-new start-up. Last week, Milo Medin and Rama Akella — veterans in the space technology and broadband networks sectors — announced the launch of Logos Space Services.
The satellite communications operator, which filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in October to construct, launch, and operate a non-geostationary orbit system, is targeting enterprise customers.
Logos Space offers MPLS and ethernet connectivity, allowing enterprises and telecom providers to extend cloud, data center, and communication networks globally with fiber-like performance without using the internet. Internet access, however, is a choice for customers such as airlines and maritime transport. Logos also provides backup communications for fiber-connected companies.
The new company is emphasizing its distinction from other satellite-based communications operators. The Logos Space system is highly resilient to electronic warfare, due to its narrow beams and specially designed, hard-to-jam control waveforms. This will enable it to maximize security and avoid jamming, features that the company said make it “built for the electronic warfare era.”
“Increasingly, our space systems are being targeted by jamming, and in the future, all spectrum access will likely be contested,” Medin, the founder and CEO of Logos Space, said in a press announcement. “We engineered Logos Space’s LEO system with this in mind to withstand electronic warfare and provide the enhanced security that businesses and the U.S. government need for their mission-critical communications.”
The Logos Space low earth orbit (LEO) satellite network will operate on the K, V, and E-bands instead of the traditional commercial satellite frequencies. The system can minimize interference from other users as well as potential threats by utilizing higher frequency bands and highly focused narrow beams. This approach also allows the network to deliver multi-gigabit services globally, using closed user groups to enhance security.
Another operator, Starlink, is moving towards gigabit speeds as certain regulatory issues proceed, Telecompetitor reported last month. SpaceX, which operates Starlink, said that approval of two filings with the FCC would enable its Gen2 Starlink non-geostationary satellite orbit (NGS) satellites to provide gigabit speed services.
In other news in this space, AST SpaceMobile announced that their first five satellites, which were launched in September, successfully unfolded their solar panels and did so ahead of schedule. AST SpaceMobile Founder, Chairman and CEO Abel Avellan said the five satellites are the largest commercial communications arrays ever launched in low Earth orbit.
