Greg Heckler

“We partnered with five members of industry and acadamia to achieve this mission,”

Greg Heckler · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-22

Greg Heckler discussed the partners involved in developing the PExT mission.

“[APL] developed the terminal and is managing projects for SCaN. The terminal is mounted on a York Space Systems bus, and they actually procured the launch itself, and will be operating the spacecraft for the first year of the demonstration.”

Greg Heckler · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-22

Greg Heckler detailed how the PExT terminal was developed and integrated.

“And during the demo, PExT will communicate across our TDRSS and two commercial networks: SES’ O3b mPOWER network, which is being actually established as we speak, and Viasat Boeing Global Xpress network as well.”

Greg Heckler · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-22

Greg Heckler outlined the commercial and NASA networks PExT will communicate with.