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Northwood just achieved some major technical validation: our phased array ground station achieved bidirectional communications links over the full duration of satellite passes with Planet Labs — this baby works!! How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. At Northwood we’re taking on the big task... show more

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Bridgit Mendler1 year ago

A lack of adequate ground connectivity is throttling progress in the space economy. Northwood phased array Portals introduce 10x the satellite connectivity at a single site over existing parabolic antennas. Launch, spacecraft, and connectivity are the three legs of the stool of infrastructure to support industrializing space and we have demonstrated our solution to dramatically accelerate its growth. Here’s more about our progress and what it means:

Bridgit Mendler1 year ago

Many more bites of the elephant to come as we enter a new phase (pun intended) with Northwood. This next phase will be about taking our successes, hitting copy and paste with production, and deploying our Portals wherever in the world we find a nice big slice of open sky. If you’d like to learn more about our locations and capabilities, visit our website at or reach us at [email protected] If you like building quickly and seeing your work deployed in places around the globe with real impact, visit

Bridgit Mendler1 year ago

More here:

delian1 year ago

Congrats Bridgit and team!!!

Andrew McCalip1 year ago

Phased arrays are sick

Bridgit Mendler1 year ago

Happen to agree

Haley Esparza1 year ago

Congratulations! 🍾 Love to see girlies (and their teams) killing in aerospace.

Bridgit Mendler1 year ago

yes queen!

Brett Krieger1 year ago

@mottbox_ Congrats Bridgit! Looking forward to tracking Northwood’s progress. Will you be announcing any news at Bloomberg’s event Friday?

Bridgit Mendler1 year ago

@mottbox_ thank you! and yes :)

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