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Celestia UK starts building world’s first Ka-band multi-beam gateway

Celestia UK is announcing at the UK Space Conference 2025 (Manchester, 16th-17th July 2025) that it has commenced the preproduction stage of a new generation of ground station gateway.

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The milestone marks a major step forward in proving that phased array ground stations are now ready for commercial deployment. 
  
The Edinburgh based business, part of the pan-European Celestia group, has started building preproduction units of the world’s first multi-beam Ka-band gateway following the successful extended testing of the system with JoeySat, validating the gateway’s ability to communicate reliably with spacecraft over a nine month period. 

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Dr Malachy Devlin (above), CEO of Celestia UK, said: “With the green light to move ahead, our teams have already started work on the first preproduction units of the Ka-band gateway, showing that the era of electronically steered gateways has now arrived.   
  
“This marks a key stage in the evolution of our work on the UK Space Agency supported Sunrise project with ESA and Eutelsat OneWeb, as phased array systems transition into commercially viable solutions. 
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“With production of our proven Ka-band gateway now underway, we’re entering a transformative phase for the global satellite industry, one where virtually unlimited constellation bandwidth and faster time to revenue from gateway deployment become a reality, driven by Celestia’s innovation. 
  
“Our solution is compact, flexible and scalable, offering high reliability and operational efficiency for next generation satellite communications capable of tracking and communicating with up to 28 satellites simultaneously.”

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