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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...

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Bridgit Mendlervor 1 Jahr

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:

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Bridgit Mendlervor 1 Jahr

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

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Bridgit Mendlervor 1 Jahr

More here:

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delianvor 1 Jahr

Congrats Bridgit and team!!!

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Andrew McCalipvor 1 Jahr

Phased arrays are sick

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Bridgit Mendlervor 1 Jahr

Happen to agree

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Haley Esparzavor 1 Jahr

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

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Bridgit Mendlervor 1 Jahr

yes queen!

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Brett Kriegervor 1 Jahr

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

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Bridgit Mendlervor 1 Jahr

@mottbox_ thank you! and yes :)

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