In September this year, the Shanghai Microsatellites Engineering Center will launch three satellites in orbit under the TW-1 mission, to develop the areas of telecommunications, maritime surveillance and earth observation. The board will be Portuguese technology with signature Tekever.
About a year, Microsatellites Engineering Center of Shanghai and the Tekever signed a long-term collaboration agreement in Lisbon for the Chinese space mission incorporate the Gamalink technology, created by the Portuguese company.
With this technology has achieved a single physical platform ( hardware ) various types of radio links, each of which uses its own Software . Before, each radio link had its own hardware , so this new technology makes the system simpler.
Ricardo Mendes, director of Tekever says in a statement that the Gamalink technology will allow three Chinese satellite “work together as a constellation of satellites and not a set of three disconnected satellites.” “It’s our technology that makes the three satellites communicate and interact, as in a dance space,” adds responsible.
This is the first partnership of a national company with a spatial Chinese entity. In the case of Tekever, the company has already established cooperation at European level with the European Space Agency (ESA, its acronym in English) to produce technology for Proba-3 satellite, which will study the solar corona and will be a test driver for next generation of satellites.
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