World’s tiniest satellite ‘pocketqube Istanbul’ by satellite tech start-up Hello Space, launched into space with SpaceX
Hello Space, a promising satellite tech start-up,
aims to set a pocketqube constellation in space to revolutionize IoT
technologies, by offering reliable, consistent IoT data services to
businesses, from even the most remote locations in the world.
World’s tiniest satellite, called
‘pocketqube’s offers cutting-edge satellite tech, with
5cm x 5cm x 5cm in size. Hello Space achieved unprecedented speed
by completion of software and hardware production followed by space launch
in under 13 months.
Hello Space’s first test pocketqube satellite, named 'Istanbul', was launched into space today on June 13, 2023, inside SpaceX's Falcon-9, Transporter-8 mission.
ISTANBUL, Türkiye, June 14, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hello Space, Satellite technologies start-up, takes on the world’s most recent satellite technology standard ‘pocketqube,’ and readies to revolutionize IoT services with satellite technologies. Hello Space aims to set a pocketqube constellation in space and offer uninterrupted end-to-end IoT data services from space to businesses in agriculture, logistics, energy industries, and many more.
Istanbul, the first test pocketqube satellite of Hello Space, fitting inside a palm with dimensions of 5cm x 5cm x 5cm, was launched into space today from California, with the SpaceX Falcon-9 Transporter-8 mission. Established in May 2022, Hello Space has achieved unprecedented speed by completing software and hardware production followed by a space launch in under 13 months. Concurrent with the pocketqube satellite production process, the Hello Space Ground Station was built to serve as the management and control center for the pocketqube satellite constellation.
Muzaffer Duysal, Co-founder and CEO of Hello Space, said: "Typically, a satellite production and space launch takes around 2-2.5 years on average. Thanks to our in-depth know-how on this most recent pocketqube technologies and dedication to succeed, we have managed to reduce this time to an unprecedented one year. Imagine forming a constellation of cutting-edge tech satellites that will provide consistent, reliable data to large businesses in agriculture, transportation logistics, and energy from space. Hello Space will revolutionize IoT services, covering even the most remote locations in the world, where data tracking is currently challenging. We are very excited for the launch of Istanbul, as the first step of our big dream come true."
Expanding satellite
coverage for the Internet of Things (IoT)
Through its highly
advanced narrowband data communication technology, Hello Space will provide
continuous and reliable data services globally by providing coverage from
space. Hello Space will be able to offer IoT services, even in remote areas
with low population density and uncovered regions such as oceans and
remote, significant agricultural lands. The services will provide location
data from containers shipped in the ocean, humidity data from remote
agricultural lands, and end-to-end temperature data in long-distance
cold-chain food logistics. Consistent, accurate data from space will
improve the efficiency of businesses via visa satellite technologies.
Team members' names sent to space
Hello Space team
embedded the names of their colleagues inside pocketqube Istanbul through
software they developed. The names of Hello Space team has also been sent
into space, along with pocketqube Istanbul.
4 more
satellites are on the way
Following the launch of the first
test pocketqube satellite Istanbul into space, Hello Space is now getting
prepared for the deployment of 4 new test pocketqube satellites, planned to
be launched in October ‘23.
About
Hello Space:
Hello Space was founded in May 2022 as
Turkey's first commercial pocketqube satellite venture. Its co-founders are
Muzaffer Duysal, the former captain of Turkey's first pocketqube satellite
team, Grizu-263, and Zafer Şen, the CEO of a leading software and
technology consulting company in Turkey. The venture aims to establish a
constellation network in space to provide IoT data services through
narrowband data transfer.
For more information,
please see https://hellospace.ist/
Follow Hello Space at: LinkedIn Hello Space, IG hellospaceist
Please contact:
Nil Ayvaz at
nil.ayvaz@obss.tech for more information
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