Celestia UK is announcing at the UK Space Conference 2025 that it has commenced the preproduction stage of a new generation of ground station gateway.
The milestone marks a major step forward in proving that phased array ground stations are now ready for commercial deployment.
The Edinburgh based business, part of the pan-European Celestia group, has started building preproduction units of the world’s first multi-beam Ka-band gateway following the successful extended testing of the system with JoeySat, validating the gateway’s ability to communicate reliably with spacecraft over a nine month period.
“With the green light to move ahead, our teams have already started work on the first preproduction units of the Ka-band gateway, showing that the era of electronically steered gateways has now arrived,” says Dr Malachy Devlin, CEO of Celestia UK.
“This marks a key stage in the evolution of our work on the UK Space Agency supported Sunrise project with ESA and Eutelsat OneWeb, as phased array systems transition into commercially viable solutions.
Celestia UK starts building world’s first Ka-band multi-beam gateway | GeoConnexion
