Collimate offers tool to predict downlink success
Top Stories Tamfitronics Collimate Space (left to right) CEO Guillermo Jenaro and chief technology officer Anthony Xiao. Credit: Collimate SpaceSAN FRANCISCO – Collimate Space, a new Silicon Valley startup, aims to tackle a specific problem for satellite operators.Collimate offers a tool for predicting the success of satellite downlinks, after considering space weather, terrestrial weather and the location and profile of ground-based antennas.That’s valuable because satellite operators can say to a customer, ‘I can get you the data with 90-percent confidence,’” Guillermo Jenaro, Collimate co-founder and CEO, told SpaceNews. “It gives you more precision in your prediction. This will empower our customers to say yes to customers they could not assist before.”In addition, once satellite operators understand the probability of success for various downlinks, they can “reverse-engineer” their operations to improve the odds of success, Jenaro...
