OverHorizon, a prospective mobile satellite communications provider, has contracted Thales Alenia Space and Orbital Sciences Corporation to build its first communications satellite.
Orbital will build the platform, based off its STARTM 2 bus. Thales will…
OverHorizon, a prospective mobile satellite communications provider, has contracted Thales Alenia Space and Orbital Sciences Corporation to build its first communications satellite.
Orbital will build the platform, based off its STARTM 2 bus. Thales will provide an on-board processing payload. The satellite will be delivered for early 2012.
OverHorizon is based in Sweden but headquartered in the US, in Arlington, Virginia.
It plans to offer mobile broadband communications for use between small terminals installed in cars, trucks, boats and aeroplanes.
Company president James Gerow said: “We are very pleased to be working together with Orbital and Thales Alenia Space to provide this new satellite to meet the significant demand for true mobile broadband communication from government, media and NGO customers operating in areas with limited or no communications infrastructure.”