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Announcement of World’s 1st EPFA Easy Flat Panel Antenna for GEO

Coinciding of the announcement of the SBN-1 Program , Saturn is please to announce the partnership with nexTenna and their latest breakthrough in Flat Panel Technology to develop and produce a novel Ka Band Flat Panel Antenna.

The EFPA (Easy Flat Panel Antenna) is capable of transmitting 10 Mbps from the user and receiving over 100Mbps from the SBN-1 HTS GEO satellite network.

Weighing less than 1kg, installed with a DVB[1]S2X broadband modem and an integrated Wifi 6/6E AP, digitally steered beam forming antenna from nexTenna and powered by an integrated solar array, the EFPA will the world first self-deploying, auto pointing and auto tracking flat panel antenna that will be available for under $1,000 retail.

 The best aspect of the EFPA is that it will consume under 30W of total power allowing it to be easily powered by low cost solar arrays. The SBN-1 customers will be able to use the EFPA for rural WiFi projects, IOT services and for comms on the move applications including connecting automobiles, transport vehicles and small vessels including over 2 million fishing vessels around the world today that do not have a data connectivity solution. The EFPA is ideally suited of location with lack of electrical infrastructure , minimal or non-existent technical skills to install typical GEO 2 way VSATs. Prototypes available by 1H 2024 with commercial units will be available in 2H 2024 about one year ahead of the SBN-1 fleet of six 100Gbps Ka-band HTS.

Tom Choi, CEO of Saturn Satellite Networks “With this exclusive agreement with nexTenna to develop the worlds first low cost flat panel array terminal, we will now finally be able to bring extremely low cost WiFi to the 3 billion people in the world living in rural communities with no electricity and other critical infrastructure. We are excited to combine SBN-1’s lowest satellite capacity pricing with the easiest to deploy and low cost terminal for communities that have been very difficult to reach and to deploy traditional mobile or satcom services. We finally have a solution that can bring critical internet connectivity to any corner of the world”

Dedi David Haziza. CEO and Founder of nexTenna stated “ nexTenna LEO/GEO Ka revolutionary steerable antenna technology provides the lowest power consumption, highest spectral efficiency and overall lowest acquisition cost and overall operational cost for the emerging markets see the collaboration with Saturn as a strategic partnership enabling connectivity on a global scale and collaborate on both production and delivery to market. “