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Hawthorne, CA and Tromsø, Norway – 23rd September 2025 – ThinKom Solutions Inc. (ThinKom) and KSAT have partnered to develop an innovative and commercially viable receive-only ground station, with the goal to improve overall network capacity as well as operational efficiency. The agreement combines ThinKom’s expertise in active phased array antenna technology with KSAT’s experience operating the largest and most extensive ground station network globally.

Under the agreement, ThinKom will develop a Ka-band version of ThinKom’s scalable Digital Array that enables multi-beam, multi-orbit, multi-constellation operation via a modular, waveform agnostic, open architecture for global deployment of ground stations.

The core antenna module uses an active phased array design based on ThinKom’s patented Ultra technology. Ultra builds on the company’s field-proven, low-power, agile, and highly reliable VICTS technology, with additional key benefits. These include a true time delay (TTD) design to support ultra-wideband operation with no beam-walk over the full frequency range, delivering the high instantaneous channel bandwidth required for remote sensing applications. The high reliability antennas, combined with the software-defined beamformer provides the dynamic target tracking and real-time adaptability necessary to effectively manage the proliferation of satellite constellations in multiple orbital planes.

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