FROM unfolding antennae

to broadband anywhere

NSLComm

Connecting the underserved

According to Cisco’s 2020 Internet Report, around half the world’s population still does not have internet access. The lack of coverage prevents billions of people from accessing communications that most of the developed world now takes for granted, from GPS and video streaming to precision farming solutions that could increase crop yields and save water.

NSLComm is working to change this, by using nanosatellites to deliver fast, reliable and affordable communications even in the most remote places on Earth. It has chosen AAC Clyde Space to provide a full end-to-end mission service package, from mission design, satellite manufacture and test to operations and data supply.

Each satellite is equipped with an antenna that unfolds into a dish shape only after it has entered orbit – this means smaller satellites can be used, which brings costs down to a level that is economically viable. The dish can be used for a range of applications, from IoT to agriculture to asset tracking.

AAC Clyde Space delivered the first of these 6U satellites to NSLComm in 2019, which has reached most of its mission goals.

Other Case studies

Orbital Micro Systems

AAC Clyde Space is working with Orbital Micro Systems to deliver accurate and timely weather information to businesses worldwide and enable faster, informed decision-making in the face of weather-driven emergencies.

Eutelsat

AAC Clyde Space is supporting global satellite operator Eutelsat to construct its own low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation, ELO (Eutelsat LEO for Objects), to deliver global internet of things (IoT) coverage, enabling objects to transmit data irrespective of their location.

Ymir-1

Ymir-1, a flight proven AAC Clyde Space EPIC LINK spacecraft serves as an in-orbit VDES demonstrator. Designed and built by AAC Clyde Space it carries a VDES payload, enabling seamless two-way communication between the satellite and ground-based stations for ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore maritime communication everywhere on the globe

xSPANCION

xSPANCION is transformational. It lays the groundwork to provide space data and services quickly and at low cost to organisations that are eager to harness the benefits of space to tackle on-Earth problems

ESA Arctic Weather Satellite

ESA’s Arctic Weather Satellite is an initial prototype mission that aims to demonstrate the usefulness of radiometric measurements to improve weather forecasts in the Arctic region and globally. AAC Omnisys has developed and built an innovative scientific weather payload in Gothenburg specifically for this mission, a passive microwave radiometer, which will provide temperature and humidity measurements of the atmospheric layers, this data will be used for Numerical Weather Prediction and Nowcasting.