Kepler to test its ÆTHER service with Spire

TORONTO – Kepler Communications, a Canadian satellite telecommunications company, announced today it has signed a contract with Spire Global Inc., a global provider of space-based data, analytics, and space services, to test Kepler’s ÆTHER network. “This will serve as an initial test bed for Kepler’s ÆTHER service and will also help Spire evaluate how the technology can support its goal to collect accurate, timely and global data,” a Kepler press release says. ÆTHER is designed to provide an always-on, real-time link to satellites, solving “one of the key challenges facing low earth orbit missions, which is limited connectivity with Earth,...