SatixFy successfully tests 5G backhaul with OneWeb's LEO constellation

The demonstration validates the integration of space and ground networks using 5G links

Satixfy Technology, a developer of of satellite communication solutions, claimed to have successfully exhibited 5G back-haul communications connected to a OneWeb-operated constellation of low-earth-orbit satellites utilizing a small electronic antenna.

"A car-mounted, ultra-compact satellite terminal was used in the demonstration. While simultaneously maintaining a continuous link with a GEO satellite at an altitude of 36,000 km, the user terminal antenna completed a number of satellite and beam handovers, cou

According to Simona Gat, CEO f SatixFy UK,,"this test further confirms our solutions addressing two of our primary target markets: electronically-steered multibeam user terminals for mobility and utilization of our terminals to meet the enormous space-enabled 5G market."

With assistance from the UK Space Agency, SatixFy and OneWeb are working together on the Sunrise Partnership Project of the European Space Agency (ESA) to create a small, electronically guided multi-beam array that may provide mobility services simultaneously over LEO and GEO satellites.

Massimiliano Ladovaz, CTO at OneWeb, stated that "once the revolutionary SatixFy electronically steered array antenna technology is in commercial production, mobility customers like airlines, train operators, and coach companies will be able to utilise, not only the OneWeb LEO network but also terrestrial 5G and legacy GEO satellite networks."

ESA Telecom Director, Elodie Viau stated that, "the Sunrise Partbnership Project aims to demonstrate that 5G high quality and speed connectivity is now a rality, benefiting everyone, every day and everywhere."

"This is a first in the world that shows how impoprtant space can be in enhancing connectivity. In partnership with businesses like OneWeb, SatixFy's antenna technology is expanding satellite communications and opening up new markets, according to Paul Brate, Chief Executive of the UK Space Agency.