SAN FRANCISCO – Solstar Space plans to conduct the first spaceflight testing next year of its narrowband satellite data-relay transceiver. The test is the culmination of more than 10 years of work by Santa Fe, New Mexico-based Solstar to raise the technical readiness level of the Critical Data Relay Spacecraft Operational Status unit, known as the Deke Space Communicator. 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,”…
