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TerreStar Completes Testing TerreStar-1 Satellite’s In-Orbit.

TerreStar Networks has completed the TerreStar-1’s in-orbit testing successfully, the company reported.

Last month the global satellite communications provider launched TerreStar-1 aboard the Ariane 5 heavy lift launch vehicle and informed that it completed a successful end-to-end phone call over TerreStar-1.

TerreStar Networks stated it is planning to offer a reliable, secure and resilient satellite terrestrial mobile broadband network.

Satellite in-orbit testing is carried out for a communications satellite to verify the integrity of the communications payload and the antenna platform following satellite launch, and prior to release of the satellite to operations.

TerreStar-1 was built by Space Systems/Loral, based on the LS-1300S bus; it carries E/F band (IEEE (News – Alert) S band) transponders to deliver mobile communications to North America. The satellite’s launch mass of 6,910 kilograms made it the most massive single satellite launched into the geostationary orbit, according to the company.

TerreStar has stated that the significant factor in TerreStar’s IOT success was validating that TerreStar-1’s 18-meter, 2GHz S Band reflector was performing as manufactured. It is this very large reflector that enables voice, data and video communications to be transmitted to mobile devices the size of a typical smartphone. The satellite is capable of generating hundreds of spot beams covering the continental United States, Canada, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Commenting on the successful completions of the IOT, TerreStar Networks Chief Technology Officer Dennis Matheson claimed that the TerreStar-1 either met or exceeded all performance metrics and that the company is on track to deliver resilient satellite – terrestrial mobile communications service to customers that need coverage anytime, anywhere.

John Celli, president and chief operating officer of the company’s “Space Systems/Loral” division, said that the completion of in-orbit testing has verified several new technologies developed by the company and its key suppliers. The test has verified the S-band antenna and a complex feed array by measurements of the antenna patterns in the ground. The reflector mesh is correctly aligned to the feed and the surface shape is accurate.

TerreStar is now entering the Ground Based Beam Forming testing phase. With GBBF, TerreStar-1 is capable of generating more than 500 simultaneous spot beams, enabling the satellite’s power to be directed where it is needed the most at any point in time.

TerreStar Corporation TSTR, Pres Jeffrey Epstein And Accounting Officer Vincent Loiacono To Speak At Growth Conference

President Jeffrey Epstein and Chief Accounting Officer Vincent Loiacono of TerreStar Networks Inc., must have explained eloquently at the recent financial growth conference, the stock is trading up on volume of 3,602,316 late day Friday.

The stock had floated between 0.21 – 3.25 for the past year, with an upward change of 0.19 (15.83%), this on an Avg Vol (3m) of 1,507,020

The companies financial were released on August 11.

On August 11, 2009, Trio 2 General Partnership (“Trio”), a partnership formed under the laws of the Province of Quebec, Canada, completed its acquisition (through 4491165 Canada Inc, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Trio) of a 66 % voting equity stake in TerreStar Networks Holdings (Canada) Inc. (“TerreStar Canada Holdings”) previously held by 4371585 Canada Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of BCE Inc. (collectively, “BCE”) (the “TerreStar Canada Change of Control Transaction”).

SatVoIP Becomes A Reality For TerreStar With EB’s Ref Designs Doing Their Best

EB, Elektrobit Corporation (OMX: EBC1V), earlier this week, that two of its all-IP enabled, integrated satellite-terrestrial smartphone reference designs were used by TerreStar Networks, to successfully complete an end-to-end voice over IP (VoIP) phone call over TerreStar-1, the world’s largest, most sophisticated commercial communications satellite.

This call demonstrates EB’s ability to design and develop advanced mobile device reference designs that work in real-world satellite-terrestrial environments. Similar in look-and-feel to today’s smartphones — including an internal antenna; unseen on any other satellite phone — the satellite-terrestrial smartphone reference design represents the world’s first quad-band GSM and tri-band WCDMA/HSPA device running the Microsoft® Windows(TM) Mobile 6.5 operating system, and offering integrated satellite-terrestrial voice and data capabilities. Additionally, EB’s satellite-terrestrial reference design offers:

• The only fully IP-based satellite phone using high-speed packet data
• The first satellite-terrestrial smartphone with a touch screen and a full QWERTY keyboard
• The first satellite-terrestrial smartphone based on Windows Mobile operating system, with competitive service offerings, including: SMS, MMS, IM, Email, Push to Talk and Location Based Services (LBS)

This week’s call, which was essential to TerreStar’s ability to meet its final FCC (Federal Communications Commission) milestone, represents a strong proof point for EB’s dedication, commitment and collaboration with partners to deliver the next-generation of dual-mode satellite-terrestrial mobile devices. Based on its highly flexible satellite-terrestrial platform, EB can develop customer specific satellite-terrestrial devices connecting to 2G/3G networks and to S-Band satellite networks. The Company makes satellite-terrestrial device development and lifecycle management simple by building collaborative product development ecosystems that ensure easy mass customization for various verticals within a short time to market.