A Argentinian nanosatellite, which will be launched by SpaceX, promises to significantly improve connectivity in the country.
It will pass between 2 and 4 times per day over every place on Earth. It will have the capacity to work with multiple technologies, communication standards, and their variants.
What is the Argentinian nanosatellite that SpaceX will launch like?
It is LABSAT IoT, an innovative satellite with the main mission of taking Internet of Things (IoT) beyond terrestrial borders and opening new opportunities in key industries.
Among them, agriculture, logistics, and maritime exploration stand out.
The Argentinian nanosatellite.
This nanosatellite, developed by the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Palermo (UP), the Professional Council of Telecommunications, Electronics, and Computing Engineering (Copitec), and the Fundetec Foundation, aims to bring IoT to hard-to-reach regions.
Additionally, its design will allow to test and optimize technologies before their commercial implementation.
LABSAT IoT is a 34-centimeter-long cubesat with reconfigurable in-flight communication systems, capable of operating in free and satellite cellular bands. This ensures compatibility with different IoT devices, which usually have low power and small antennas.
What will this new satellite technology allow?
According to the Faculty of Engineering of the UP, it will allow total coverage (sea, countryside, and non-urban areas) of Earth, for very small devices with very small batteries lasting for years.
The development team is made up of graduates, research professors, and students. They come from areas such as Electronic Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering, Computer Engineering, Industrial Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence Engineering.
“The satellite must establish communications with small devices with small batteries, which do not have large antennas or complex receivers, in order to facilitate communication over long distances, such as towards a radio base in space,” they emphasize at the university.
“This requires deploying all the technological complexity in the satellite, which must compensate for the simplicity of the devices on the ground,” they point out.
How this innovative technology is.
The large number of devices covered in the extensive areas to be covered, therefore, represents a challenge, extending the complexity of processing and mitigating interferences.
SpaceX will launch the nanosatellite
The University of Palermo has already signed the contract for the launch with SpaceX, Elon Musk’s company. The satellite is expected to be launched in mid-2026 aboard a Falcon 9 rocket.
It is expected to operate in a polar orbit, which will allow it to maximize coverage over areas of interest and transmit data to ground stations in Argentina and the region.
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