Solstar Space Co.

Be sure to read the SatMagazine article: "The burgeoning need for reliable WiFi for space missions" As the commercialization of space advances and more spacecraft, people, and things are operating in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and beyond, Wi-Fi in space is becoming crucial to support momentous space missions. Get the full story https://lnkd.in/gHkw9xAt

Did you catch this episode of N2K | T-Minus Space Daily podcast??Learn how our Founder & CEO, Brian Barnett originally entered the space industry and how the most recent company he founded, Solstar Space Co., is developing Space WiFi and making WiFi-enabled satellites a reality.?Brian's interview begins at 11:05 - https://lnkd.in/ex54Um2x Thank you Maria Varmazis for hosting Brian Barnett and highlighting Solstar Space Co. #spacewifi Stephen Barnett Eric Swank Mark Matossian, Ph.D.

Since 2018, Solstar Space Co. has been progressing space-based communications. In April 2018 we sent the first commercial Tweet from space. In July of the same year, Solstar Space's Schmitt Space Communicator maintained an internet connection from launch to landing, as well as during an emergency escape simulation. The Solstar Schmitt Space Communicator will be displayed at the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution's new exhibit coming in 2025 - "Living in the Space Age". Today, we are extending on-orbit communications including narrowband, wideband connectivity, and radiation-hardened Space WiFi. Thanks to the support of AFWERX and AFVentures with #SBIR awards, our crew is deep in the development of next-generation flight-ready, software-enabled network equipment and services that will keep space missions in LEO and lunar orbit and on the lunar surface connected. Our crew is committed to blazing new pathways in space communications.

Solstar Space Co. provides purpose-built radiation hardened, space-ready #WiFi solutions engineered to address the need for telemetry, remote flight control, and research in Low Earth Orbit (#LEO). Solstar Space WiFi is designed to support Rendezvous, Proximity Operations, and Docking (#RPOD) for scientific and medical experiment data. It supports In-Space Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing (#ISAM) keeping people and assets in space reliably connected, secure, and safe. Solstar has already demonstrated its text-to-space capabilities aboard the Blue Origin New Shepard crew capsule in 2018. With the support of two phase II SBIRs and one phase I #SBIR, we look forward to additional flight tests for our continually advancing data relays and radiation hardened WiFi access points. Tony Colucci Brian Barnett Stephen Barnett Eric Swank Frankie Arvelo

On November 12, 2013, Solstar Space sent the first commercial text message to a spacecraft in space. The rocket that contained Solstar Space Co.'s Schmitt Space Communicator and blasted off from Spaceport America in New Mexico USA. Watch the short film about this day https://lnkd.in/gq4BfZiZ In 2025, the historic space hardware from this mission, Solstar's Schmitt Space Communicator, will be highlighted at the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution's new exhibit "Living in the Space Age".

It's a great honor to have the great Alan Stern recognizing the significance and reach of Solstar Space Co.'s mission and technologies.

Catch Part 2 of our interview with Alan Stern. In this Solstar Space Co. interview with Alan Stern learn why space communications between spacecraft are useful. Alan Stern, planetary scientist, Virgin Galactic Astronaut, and Solstar Space Advisor discusses the importance of communications between spacecraft in this special Solstar Space expert interview. "There's an increasing emphasis on the application of communications that are satellite to satellite and those are really used for two different purposes. One is to relay signals around the Earth hopping satellite to satellite a little bit like cell tower to cell tower here on the Earth in order to quickly get to a ground station that a given spacecraft may not be over but one of its communications relays is over. That just improves the efficiency of communications and gives us a lot more options for getting data to the ground but also there's an application of satellites talking to each other to share data, to share planning and that's becoming increasingly more important and will in the future as AI applications on board spacecraft become more and more important," says Alan Stern. Watch the full video now: https://lnkd.in/grQu7weD

The other day Debra Werner from SpaceNews caught up with Solstar Space Co. Founder and CEO, Brian Barnett. He talked about our focus on providing space-to-ground and space-to-space communications.?In the article, Debra covered Solstar's plans to conduct spaceflight testing in 2025 for our Deke narrowband satellite data-relay transceiver. Once the Deke Space Communicator is integrated with a spacecraft’s telemetry, tracking and commanding system, satellite operators will have “a persistent two-way satellite internet link between your spacecraft and the ground,” Solstar CEO Brian Barnett told?SpaceNews. “If an operator has multiple spacecraft in low-Earth orbit with the Deke Space Communicator, they could talk space-to-space as well.” Get the full story here https://lnkd.in/gr6XsS3P

This week in Mountain View we had the opportunity to catch up with long time space and satellite industry colleagues and meet many new industry leaders as well. Thank you to the entire team at SatNews for another fantastic Silicon Valley Space Week (#SVSW). Solstar Space Co. was proud to have been included in the program and we look forward to 2025.

Why are space communications so important? Alan Stern, planetary scientist, Virgin Galactic Astronaut, and Solstar Space Co. Advisor discusses the importance of in-space communications in Part 1 of our series on on-orbit connectivity. Brian Barnett Tony Colucci Stephen Barnett Miranda Sanchez