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SNC and Muon Space launch three vindlér(r) 2.0 satellites to power expedited RF data & analytics. * SNC successfully launched its Vindlér 2.0 constellation of three satellites built by Muon Space for commercial RF data collection and analytics services. * Vindlér detects and geo-locates targeted RF emissions, enabling operators to identify and track items of interest for enhanced situational awareness and decision making in complex environments. * Vindlér detects a wide range of emitters from VHF to Ka-band - identifying dark vessels and other threats. SPARKS, Nev. (Mar. 31, 2026) - SNC, the global aerospace and national security company, and Muon Space, the Mission Foundry for high-performance satellite constellations, announce the successful March 30 launch and initial contact with three next-generation Vindlér satellites. All three satellites have been confirmed healthy and are undergoing commissioning, marking the operational debut of SNC's Vindlér 2.0 constellation, powering unprecedented commercial radio frequency (RF) data collection and analytics services. Vindlér detects and geo-locates targeted RF emissions, enabling operators to identify and track items of interest for enhanced situational awareness and decision making in complex environments. The technology is specifically designed to address a growing national security and commercial need for timely, precise RF data. SNC partnered with Muon Space to launch three satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base on SpaceX's Transporter-16 rideshare mission. Muon Space is an end-to-end space systems provider that designs, builds and operates mission-optimized, low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations. SNC's RF technology, diverse data sets and analytic capabilities, coupled with Muon's scalable design, instrument development and operations support, will bring to life a new level of commercial possibilities with an emphasis on low-latency delivery and prioritizing immediate intelligence dissemination. "With the launch of Vindlér 2.0, we are fundamentally reshaping the commercial RF market," said Charlie Howell, vice president of programs at SNC. "This constellation delivers a level of precision and data richness that legacy systems simply can't match. By pairing SNC's decades of RF and ISR experience with on-orbit processing and low-latency delivery, we're giving operators information they can act on at the speed of the mission." Leveraging a more than 60-year legacy of RF, electronic warfare systems and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance solutions, SNC's Vindlér technology can simultaneously detect a wide range of emitters from VHF to Ka-band with high accuracy and throughputs rivaling or exceeding entire competitor constellations. Critical applications include GPS jamming and spoofing detection, maritime domain awareness, dark vessel tracking and more in support of national security efforts. This technology is particularly critical when evaluating operations in contested or denied access areas. Thanks to high-capacity downlinks, robust inter-satellite links and automated onboard processing, Vindlér can compress and analyze RF data in orbit, reducing raw data volumes and accelerating delivery. SNC states that intelligence can move from collection to operational users in as little as four hours, a stark contrast to the multi-day timelines common with legacy systems. The advanced RF solution also features multi-modal analytics with twice-daily downlink revisits, ensuring timely and precise data delivery. "Vindlér brings together SNC's deep RF sensing and ELINT heritage with Muon's flight-proven spacecraft platform," said Jonny Dyer, CEO of Muon Space. "The result is a purpose-built constellation delivering mission-grade RF geolocation and same-day tasking at the scale today's operations demand." The satellites, built on the Condor-M platform, are substantially larger and more capable than prior commercial RF collectors. The platform enables AI to be integrated directly into the onboard processing chain - allowing more intelligent analysis to be performed in space before downlink, reducing latency and increasing the actionability of delivered intelligence. Over the next several years, SNC plans to increase the constellation to more than 20 satellites, all of which will collect additional RF bands and provide multiple revisits throughout the day. The company will continue work on the Vindlér program from its facility in Herndon, Virginia, which is also home to the company's state-of-the-art technology integration and demonstration facility known as The Grid. SNC is a trusted global leader in aerospace and national security. Its innovative solutions enable connected protection through command, control and communications systems, as well as ISR, cyber, electromagnetic spectrum management, and other high capabilities for national security systems across all domains - sea, land, air, space and cyber. As a longstanding leader in defense technology, SNC is at the optimum intersection of commercial, defense and non-traditional contractors. Sierra Nevada Company, LLC. is one of the only privately owned mid-tier A&D contractors and Sierra Nevada Company, LLC. pride ourselves on its ability to invest early and often to ensure mission success on or ahead of schedule. It's part of its mission to always stay one step ahead; working on solutions today to solve the problems of tomorrow. Founded in 1963, SNC is owned by Chairwoman Eren Ozmen and CEO Fatih Ozmen. About Muon Space Muon Space is the Mission Foundry, designing, building, and operating high-performance satellite constellations for defense, civil, and commercial customers. Founded in 2021, the company has engineered every layer: spacecraft, instruments, software, and operations, all designed to work together from simulation to orbit. With advanced production facilities in Silicon Valley and multiple constellations already on orbit, Muon delivers in months, not years. For more information, visit: https://www.muonspace.com/. Media Contacts: Muon Space: Michael Sias | Firm 19 for Muon | [email protected] Ayse caglar. Vice President Communications

Hubble Network builds satellite Network to connect regular bluetooth IoT devices. Friday, Mar 13th, 2026 (8:28 am) - Score 120 The Hubble Network, which specialises in connecting Internet of Things (IoT) devices (e.g. sensors, parcel tracking, stolen vehicle recovery etc.), has confirmed the first-ever direct-to-satellite connection using standard, commercially available Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) chips. The development could enable ordinary Bluetooth devices to transmit data globally from virtually anywhere on Earth. Admittedly on these pages Ispreview normally write about broadband connectivity for consumers, yet those same networks can often also be used to connect IoT devices. But such approaches normally involve existing 4G / 5G mobile networks and spectrum, while extending the Direct-to-Device (DtD) approach of satellite connectivity to Bluetooth kit (without specialised hardware or cellular infrastructure) could help to open up the IoT market. NOTE: The Hubble Network has raised around $100m (£75m) since it was founded in 2021. The challenge is that BLE tends to be more of a short-range wireless technology via a small slice of the unlicensed 2.4GHz ISM band, which often claims to offer ranges of up to 100 metres in open environments (in the real world it's frequently more like 10-30 metres). However, a strong signal coming directly from space could get around this and open up the scope of such connectivity, provided it can coexist with WiFi and other services. In the new demonstration, which used Hubble Network's proprietary protocol, standard Bluetooth(R) LE microcontrollers were able to transmit small packets of sensor and tracking data of up to 13 Bytes per message directly to Hubble's Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation. Developers can enable the capability through Hubble's software development kit SDK, allowing devices to add satellite connectivity without cellular modems, SIM cards, or GPS modules. A simple firmware update is often all that's required. Alex Haro, CEO and Co-Founder of Hubble Network, said: "Until now, satellite IoT required expensive specialized hardware. We have eliminated that barrier. Any device built with a standard Bluetooth LE chip now has the potential to send data from anywhere on the planet." Before anybody asks, Bluetooth devices using this approach can still potentially run for years on a single coin cell battery (more of a reference to smaller sensors), as the device itself just sees a regular connection. In order to do all this the Hubble Network aspires to deploy a 60-satellite constellation capable of connecting up to a billion Bluetooth devices worldwide by 2028. Hubble has already ordered two 500kg MuSat XL satellite buses from California's Muon Space for deployment in 2027, which follows 7 smaller cubesats that have already been launched into orbit via Spire Global - these enabled Hubble to demonstrate their first Bluetooth connections directly to a satellite (this technically occurred last year). Top News of the Week: March 11, 2026 March 9, 2026 March 10, 2026 March 5, 2026 March 8, 2026 1 Response * NE555 says: March 13, 2026 at 9:42 am There must be some clever stuff going on. If the standard bluetooth range is 100m, then a satellite 100km away will receive only one millionth of the power (inverse square law). And it has to fish out the signal it's interested in from thousands of other nearby bluetooth devices, not to mention much higher-powered wifi in the same band. Reply Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked * NOTE: Your comment may not appear instantly (it may take several hours) due to static caching and moderation checks by the anti-spam system. Please be patient. Ispreview will reject comments that spam, troll, post via known fake IP/proxy servers or fall foul of its Online Safety and Content Policy. Privacy Notice: Please note that news comments are anonymous, which means that Ispreview do NOT require you to enter any real personal details to post a message and display names can be almost anything you like (provided they do not contain offensive language or impersonate a real person's legal name). By clicking to submit a post you agree to storing your entries for comment content, display name, IP and email in its database, for as long as the post remains live. Only the submitted name and comment will be displayed in public, while the rest will be kept private (Ispreview will never share this outside of ISPreview, regardless of whether the data is real or fake). This comment system uses submitted IP, email and website address data to spot abuse and spammers. All data is transferred via an encrypted (https secure) session.