Maija Palmer from Sifted recently caught up with Isotropic Systems to talk about the antenna being developed that can handle signals from multiple satellite systems with no moving parts.
The cost of sending a satellite up to space is about 1/20th of the price it was two decades ago thanks to the arrival of SpaceX and its reusable rockets. But the price of the antennas that would allow you to receive the signals from all those new satellites remains prohibitively expensive.
Plus, with a huge number of satellite constellations from Elon Musk’s Starlink, the UK’s OneWeb as well as Inmarsat, Intelsat, SpaceX, Amazon, SES and Telesat hitting the heavens, there is an increasing cacophony of signals to listen for, none of which will make antennas any cheaper or easier to build.
UK startup Isotropic Systems, however, is hoping to solve the satellite industry’s antenna problem with a new technology that can receive beams from multiple different satellites — at...