Atlas Space Operations operates a cloud-based ground network for satellite downlink as well as telemetry, tracking and control. This image shows the Atlas Freedom Ground Network's operational and planned sites. Credit: Atlas

Atlas Space Operations wins Air Force antenna contract

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The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) in partnership with the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit awarded Atlas Space Operations a contract to prototype an electronically steered antenna array to support Air Force multi-band, multi-mission requirements.

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Atlas Space Operations operates a cloud-based ground network for satellite downlink as well as telemetry, tracking and control. This image shows the Atlas Freedom Ground Network's operational and planned sites. Credit: Atlas

Why the “Amazonification” of satellite data communications is a good thing

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As a founder and chief strategy officer of ATLAS Space Operations, a satellite data communications company that has been doing this very same thing for the past four years, you might think I’d be a little nervous to see Amazon enter the industry. But I’m not.

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Atlas Space Operations operates a cloud-based ground network for satellite downlink as well as telemetry, tracking and control. This image shows the Atlas Freedom Ground Network's operational and planned sites. Credit: Atlas

Atlas Space Operations wins first defense customer

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With the SpaceX rideshare launch, Atlas Space Operations welcomed its first Defense Department customer into its cloud-based ground station network.

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