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3D printing manufacturer SWISSto12, announced the closing of a series B financing round, raising CHF18.1 million ($18.5 million) to fund the company’s industrialization and commercial deployment of antenna products for communication satellites. SWISSto12 also plans to extend its business by developing advanced communication payloads for the SmallSat market and exploring opportunities in terrestrial communications, such as 5G.

Link Microtek has designed and fabricated a complex microwave feed assembly for use in a customer’s Ku-Band mobile SATCOM antenna system.

Iridium Communications Inc. announced the first 10 approved beta partners developing new products based on the state-of-the-art Iridium Certus 9770 transceiver.

Orbital Micro Systems (OMS) announced that data received from its payload on the IOD-1 GEMS satellite has proven the commercial viability of the company’s advanced earth observation platform.

ThinKom Solutions reveals its new innovative solution for efficient and effective land-based gateways designed to accommodate current and next generation low Earth orbit (LEO) and medium Earth orbit (MEO) satellite constellations.

Avanti’s latest high-throughput satellite will provide flexible and quick-to-deploy Ka-Band communications across EMEA. Launched at 20:30 GMT on  August 6, 2019 from the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana, HYLAS 3 is Avanti Communications Group’s latest satellite deployment, and one of its most ambitious to date.