Northwood Space, the startup led by Bridgit Mendler, passed its first major development test last week by connecting with Planet imagery satellites in orbit.
Northwood Space, the startup led by former television star and singer Bridgit Mendler, passed its first major development test last week by connecting with Planet imagery satellites in orbit.
The Ground Station as a Service market has companies going after the opportunity in managing the Earth-based side of space infrastructure. Along those lines, In her view, ground stations are"the third leg of the stool" of space technology, with the other two being rockets, or the cargo vehicles, and satellites, or the orbital infrastructure.
"We were able to achieve bi-directional communications for the full duration of a pass with Planet's satellites and achieved nominal communications for them. They were able to perform their operations as they would on their own system," Mendler said.Northwood designed and built Frankie in four months, the company said, and was able to deploy the antenna"from off the truck to live sky testing" in six hours.
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