Tucson Arizona based Paramium Technologies has partnered with Nebraska-based Hastings Industrial HVAC Manufacturing to establish a manufacturing production facility for large dish ground station antennas that communicate with satellites and future space communication sites.
The recent proliferation of launched orbital satellites and upcoming space exploration missions will produce enormous volumes of critical data, data that will accelerate world industry and commerce, increase decision making efficiency. The data will also help prevent catastrophic events for humans on earth.
Currently, earth observation (EO) satellites alone produce hundreds of terabytes (TB) of data per day. Industry experts predict that by year 2032, EO satellites will generate 230 petabytes (PB) per day. However, as the number of launched orbital satellites continues to skyrocket, the amount of earth based “send/receive” antennas has stagnated. This has caused a rapidly compounding bottleneck where satellites are hamstrung by the limit of data they can transmit to earth.
To alleviate this problem, Paramium and Hastings HVAC now join forces to build a robust and highly secure self-serve Ground Station as a Service (GSaaS) platform to alleviate the shortage. Satellite companies and Industrial users alike will be able to use this high-speed antenna network to download data from their satellites.
The secret to mass producing our antennas for global coverage is Paramium’s Magnum™ antenna design, which leverages numerous patent-pending technologies. These solutions make Magnum™ antennas tunable to communicate with satellites at any major frequency band. The antennas are also specifically engineered for mass production .
Our first ground station antenna will be installed in Hastings, Nebraska, USA. Paramium has also identified candidates for the next 10 antenna farm locations. “We saw the huge need to get data down from LEO satellites,” said Justin Hyatt, Paramium’s CEO. “Traditionally, GSaaS companies have been selling time on an assortment of legacy antennas. We felt there was a better way.” So, the Paramium and Hastings engineers proceeded to design a ground station theory optimized for mass production and multi-user shared infrastructure. “We started with the foundation of modern performance requirements. Each ground station needs to serve dozens of different satellite signals and orbit patterns every day. That pointed directly to multiband antennas with a digital back end.”
Paramium’s Magnum™ antennas will be the same across the entire network, providing a standard user experience. “Booking time on our platform is as easy as scheduling a meeting on Zoom” Hyatt says. “Imagine you wanted to make a phone call as you were driving across town and you needed to schedule in advance which cell towers you would connect with along the way. That’s how satcom works now. Paramium is taking us to the future with constant, uninterrupted communication.” Satellite operators can apply for early access to Paramium’s network at Paramium.com.
Based in Tucson, Arizona, Paramium offers GSaaS solutions that deliver around-the-clock, multi-band satellite connectivity, enabling clients to achieve seamless, secure communication across their operations. Paramium helps satellite operators focus on data acquisition by bringing home the data for their own use, on their schedule. Hastings HVAC has engineered and fabricated industrial machinery in Nebraska since 1938. They manufacture custom commercial and industrial heating, ventilating and air-handling equipment as well as aerospace systems.