A Santa Fe startup founded in 2017 will provide wireless technology to Northrop Grumman that will be used on NASA’s Habitation and Logistics Outpost module which is scheduled for a 2024 launch.
Designed to be smaller than a laptop, Solstar Space Co.’s “mission critical” wireless access point will be mounted inside the module — known as HALO — and provide a WiFi network to help an astronaut communicate with those at ground control, in spacecraft or stationed on the lunar surface, said Mark Matossian, Solstar’s co-founder.
“It will securely connect WiFi-enabled components including computers and IoT sensors, creating a collection of space-based networked devices,” Matossian said in a news release.
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