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Business Wire
20-05-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
ATLAS Space Operations Demonstrates Transformative Capabilities for Air Force Research Lab through the Defense Innovation Unit's Hybrid Space Architecture for Department of Defense
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ATLAS Space Operations, including its wholly owned subsidiary Freedom Space Technologies, announced today the successful completion of a series of demonstrations showcasing its Freedom ® Software Platform's ability to integrate diverse government and commercial satellite ground station networks for the U.S. Air Force Research Lab and Defense Innovation Unit (DIU). These demonstrations validated a transformative approach to satellite ground operations, providing secure, scalable, and resilient space data transmission. "By unifying disparate ground networks through a secure, cloud-native interface, we've demonstrated how Freedom transforms satellite operations into a scalable, software-defined service," said Brad Bode, CTO & Co-Founder, ATLAS Space Operations. Through the DIU Hybrid Space Architecture project, ATLAS demonstrated the Freedom platform's capability to manage and orchestrate multiple disparate networks, ensuring timely data transmission while maintaining information assurance and security. The software's architecture, built on best-in-class commercial practices, features software-defined controls, interfaces, and security, ensuring flexibility and trust amidst rapid technological changes. Key objectives achieved during the project include integrating commercial networks, such as the ATLAS global network and Viasat's Real-Time Earth, onboarding DoD assets, and enabling rapid access for federal users, including the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC). The Freedom UI provided an intuitive, web-based interface for operators to manage satellite contacts across these diverse networks, while advanced cyber controls, aligned with DFARS/NIST 800-171 standards, secured data and communications. "By unifying disparate ground networks through a secure, cloud-native interface, we've demonstrated how Freedom transforms satellite operations into a scalable, software-defined service," said Brad Bode, CTO & Co-Founder, ATLAS Space Operations. "This architecture not only ensures rapid onboarding and cross-network orchestration but also delivers resilient, mission-ready connectivity aligned with the DoD's need for agile and secure space access." Key outcomes of the demonstrations include: Operational Interoperability: Seamless integration across DoD and commercial ground station assets, including secure tasking and telemetry. Cybersecurity Maturity: Meeting DFARS/NIST 800-171 compliance and demonstrating readiness for FedRAMP and ITAR requirements. ATLAS and Freedom Space Technologies also completed a NIST 800-53 Rev. 5 Moderate baseline security assessment. Federated User Access: Successful onboarding of the U.S. Army SMDC, proving the platform's ability to support diverse agencies securely. Dynamic Scheduling and Network Abstraction: Enabling task execution across multi-vendor networks through a seamless user experience. Scalability and Modularity: Demonstrating the platform's ability to scale by adding antennas, users, and partners without system re-architecture. Enhanced User Experience: Providing an intuitive interface for scheduling, monitoring, and data retrieval. Readiness for Future Capabilities: Collecting rich data to enable predictive analytics, automated mission validation, and machine learning-driven autonomous operations. About ATLAS Space Operations, Inc. ATLAS Space Operations is the leading provider of Ground Software as a Service™ in the space communications industry. ATLAS' revolutionary Freedom ® software has been recognized by industry-leading publications and organizations such as Via Satellite and CIO Review. Additionally, Aerospace & Defense Review named ATLAS the Space Tech Company of the Year (2024) and acknowledged ATLAS as one of the Top Satellite Solutions Providers (2024, 2023). Lastly, ATLAS was highlighted in the CIO Review: Telecom Edition as Company of the Year (2023), as well as one of the 10 Most Promising Technologies. ATLAS combines the Freedom Software Platform and its federated global antenna network to achieve its mission of securing space access anytime, anywhere. To learn more, visit
National Post
13-05-2025
- Business
- National Post
SES Space & Defense to Provide Hybrid Space-Based Architecture to U.S. Department of Defense
Article content Article content RESTON, Va. — SES Space & Defense, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SES, joins the Defense Innovation Unit's (DIU) Hybrid Space Architecture Network initiative. SES's Hybrid Space Architecture II project will showcase an automatically orchestrated secure integrated multi-orbit network that interconnects commercial and government networks to deliver assured and affordable, low-latency, multi-path communications across a scalable and resilient multi-domain network. Article content SES Space & Defense will deliver an engineered multi-orbit network leveraging Secure Integrated Multi-Orbit Networking (SIMON™). This will enable always-on connectivity as an affordable, resilient alternative to traditional Primary, Alternate, Contingency, and Emergency (PACE) and auto-PACE operations currently used by warfighters across the Department of Defense (DoD) worldwide. By blending LEO, MEO, and GEO capabilities in a purposeful manner, SIMON™ ensures that the warfighters' data can affordably traverse multiple orbital regimes simultaneously, adapting and adjusting in real time to changing mission requirements. Article content 'With SIMON™, warfighters will have the ability to 'set and forget' their user terminals and affordably realize assured connectivity across multiple orbits,' says David Fields, President and CEO of SES Space & Defense. 'This transformational approach solves a decades-long dichotomy of affordability versus resilience, providing SATCOM agility, flexibility, and reliability for the forward deployed personnel.' Article content SES Space & Defense is a wholly-owned subsidiary of SES and is exclusively focused on building, managing, and supporting the most advanced satellite network solutions for the U.S. Government. SES Space & Defense uses a proven multi-operator network integration and management capability, a broad global terrestrial network, as well as access to SES's multi-orbit satellite fleet. It also offers U.S. Department of Defense customers the essential tools in cybersecurity for mission-critical operations, coupled with a proven track record in governance and compliance. SES Space & Defense operates under a proxy board, enabling it to support classified projects, and it has participated in the U.S. Government satcom sector for nearly five decades. Further information can be found at: Article content SES has a bold vision to deliver amazing experiences everywhere on Earth by distributing the highest quality video content and providing seamless data connectivity services around the world. As a provider of global content and connectivity solutions, SES owns and operates a geosynchronous orbit fleet and medium earth orbit (GEO-MEO) constellation of satellites, offering a combination of global coverage and high performance services. By using its intelligent, cloud-enabled network, SES delivers high-quality connectivity solutions anywhere on land, at sea or in the air, and is a trusted partner to telecommunications companies, mobile network operators, governments, connectivity and cloud service providers, broadcasters, video platform operators and content owners around the world. The company is headquartered in Luxembourg and listed on Paris and Luxembourg stock exchanges (Ticker: SESG). Further information is available at: Article content Article content Article content Article content Contacts Article content Article content Article content
Yahoo
12-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Pentagon taps 12 more companies for space data transport network demos
The Defense Innovation Unit said Monday it has selected 12 companies to join its effort to build a secure network of military and commercial communication satellites, which will begin conducting demonstrations later this summer. The Hybrid Space Architecture program, or HSA, brings together a slew of Defense Department organizations — including DIU, Space Systems Command and the Air Force Research Laboratory — to show the value of integrating commercial satellites and communications systems into the military's architecture to provide more bandwidth, security and flexibility. 'The HSA network has the potential to increase network resilience by employing multi-path routing of communications to optimize data transport and mitigate adverse effects caused by weather or other obstructions,' DIU said in a statement. 'HSA seeks to integrate commercial persistent sensing, data fusion, high-performance edge compute, and resilient data transport capabilities to significantly enhance real-time access to information.' The effort is closely linked to the Defense Department's concept of Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control — a vision to connect military forces and their information-sharing systems, regardless of whether they're operating in the air, space, sea, land or cyber domains. To achieve that aim, the department needs a more secure and agile communications backbone that can connect satellites that reside in multiple orbits, take advantage of cloud computing infrastructure to process and distribute data and fuse data from an array of sensors. DIU chose eight initial firms to begin developing prototypes through the program in 2022. On Monday, it added 12 new vendor teams: Capella Space; EdgeCortix; Eutelsat America Corp. and OneWeb Technologies; Fairwinds Technologies and AST Space Mobile; Illumina Computing Group; Lockheed Martin; MapLarge; SES Space and Defense; Skycorp; SkyFi; Ursa Space; and Viasat. Hybrid Space Architecture demonstrations are slated to start this summer and will continue over the next year, according to DIU, with the goal of piloting an operational network in 2026. As part of that work, the program team plans to launch a live network that will support the demonstrations and exercises and help integrate warfighting concepts and tactics. 'Success with these demonstrations will be moving the Department closer to realizing an operational, resilient, and hybrid space architecture,' DIU said in a statement.
Business Wire
12-05-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Capella Space Awarded Contract by the U.S. Defense Innovation Unit to Support the Hybrid Space Architecture
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Capella Space Corp., an American space tech company with data and satellite solutions for government and commercial applications, today announced a partnership with the U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to develop new synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging acquisition modes to support the Hybrid Space Architecture (HSA). Backed by Capella Space's fully automated Tasking system, these enhancements will provide an unmatched ability to reliably provide low-latency imagery with broad-area coverage to enhance maritime domain awareness and mapping applications. 'These new imaging modes will enable our government partners to access an unmatched rapid, broad-area monitoring capability for enhanced decision-making day or night, regardless of weather conditions,' said Frank Backes, CEO of Capella Space. 'Capella's fully automated Tasking system and the ability to improve our capabilities on-orbit allows us to quickly iterate to meet our partners' evolving mission needs. Through this partnership, Capella will be able to lend our high-quality imaging capabilities to support DIU's initiative to integrate advanced commercial capabilities into U.S. government systems and support warfighters on the ground.' Valued up to $4.2 million, Capella will use this award to develop new low-latency, broad-area imaging capabilities to enable users to rapidly track vessels, icebergs and other objects across the maritime domain. Capella's high-resolution SAR satellite system images in all weather, day or night, providing consistent monitoring capabilities to support change detection, patterns of life analysis, disaster response, mining operations and more. This award builds on the strong partnerships Capella Space has developed with other U.S. government agencies, including the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), U.S. Air Force, U.S. Space Force and NASA. About Capella Space Capella Space is an American space tech company with data and satellite solutions for government and commercial use. A leader in the Earth observation industry, Capella is the first U.S. company to design, build and operate a global constellation of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites, delivering high quality, high resolution SAR imagery. Its market-leading SAR satellites are matched with a fully automated Tasking system and adaptable sensor technologies to quickly deliver reliable global insights that provide global transparency for our evolving planet. Capella is headquartered in San Francisco, California with additional locations in Denver, Colorado and Washington, D.C.
