Lynk Global, in partnership with SES. and its affiliates, is developing a multi-orbit solution to more efficiently and effectively deploy global direct-to-device (D2D) services utilising Lynk’s Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites and SES’s Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) and Geostationary-Earth Orbit (GEO) satellites.

Lynk’s US base is in Chevy Chase, Maryland (a suburb of Washington DC).

To support this novel D2D service, Lynk has “respectfully” asked the FCC to “authorise experimental test transmissions for a period of one year beginning May 17th or as soon as possible thereafter to continue current data-relay performance testing from the ground.”

For the Ka-band ground relay testing, there are two (2) antennas specified in this application (a parabolic dish and a patch antenna) says Lynk’s application, that will be dynamically repointed toward the direction of the SES MEO satellites during testing.

For the C-band ground relay testing, there are two (2) antennas specified in this application (an omnidirectional patch antenna and a directional Yagi antenna) that will be statically pointed toward the SES-4 GEO satellite during testing. Only one antenna will be used at a time, says Lynk.

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