FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
X2nSat and Spaceport America Announce Partnership
To Establish Next-Generation Satellite Gateway
X2nSat Board of Directors Approves Memorandum of Agreement To Partner
With Spaceport America
PRNEWSWIRE – Spaceport America, NM, and Petaluma, CA. – May 19, 2015
– Global satellite communications solutions provider X2nSat announces today its
decision to partner with Spaceport America – the world’s first purpose-built,
commercial spaceport. X2nSat has signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA)
for the long-term lease of land and access to infrastructure as the first VSAT
(Very Small Aperture Terminal) solution provider within Spaceport America’s new
satellite gateway ground station development.
“I truly believe the world is a better place when the unconnected are connected,”
said Garrett C. Hill, CEO of X2nSat. “We chose to partner with Spaceport
America to build the world’s most modern satellite gateway to support current
and future satellite fleets because we’re passionate about building the
infrastructure for the next generation of satellite communications. This location
has everything we need to do that – stable and dry weather, a southern latitude,
24/7 security, plentiful real estate, minimal electromagnetic interference, and
extremely low horizons in all directions. This represents the future of
communications.”
The MOA is a precursor to a long-term lease agreement scheduled to be
finalized this summer. Groundbreaking for the facility is planned for later this
year, with it becoming operational in 2016 and adding as many as 20 jobs to New
Mexico in the long term.
By connecting its satellites to Spaceport America’s robust terrestrial fiber
network, X2nSat’s planned ground station will enable a variety of space-based
technology to improve daily life around the world – for health-care
communications, smart-grid optimization, and energy and environmental
monitoring, among others. X2nSat currently provides highly reliable wireless
network and communications solutions to a wide variety of industries with its
high-capacity satellite gateway and 24x7x365 Network Operations Center located
in California, with redundant sites and data centers spread throughout the United
States.
“X2nSat’s vision, know-how and track record of achievement in the VSAT and
satellite communications industries make them an ideal partner for Spaceport
America,” said Christine Anderson, CEO of Spaceport America. “We’re thrilled
X2nSat is joining our growing portfolio of customers, and look forward to fulfilling
our mission to bring the future to the present through this new partnership.”
Spaceport America will be exhibiting from today through May 21, 2015 at the
Space Tech Expo in Long Beach, CA alongside the New Mexico Partnership, NM
State’s economic development agency in booth number 2000.
About Spaceport America
Spaceport America is the first purpose-built commercial spaceport in the world.
The FAA licensed launch complex, situated on 18,000 acres adjacent to the U.S.
Army White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico, boasts 6,000 square
miles of restricted airspace, low population density, a 12,000-foot spaceway and
340+ days of sunshine and low humidity. The two largest and most respected
companies in the commercial space industry are now tenants at Spaceport
America; Virgin Galactic and SpaceX. For more information:
http://spaceportamerica.com/press-center/ and follow us on Twitter:
@Spaceport_NM
About X2nSat
X2nSat provides highly reliable wireless network and communications solutions,
with a commitment to making the world, business and life better with reliable
communication anytime, anywhere. Working “above the cloud,” X2nSat offers the
robust services of a large telecommunications company with the personalized
customer care of a specialty organization, and is a leading provider of Very Small
Aperture Terminal (VSAT) satellite technology to a wide range of industries. For
more information, visit http://www.X2nSat.com.
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Media Contact for X2nSat:
Jennifer Churchill, Media Relations
+1.707.664.5734
jennifer.churchill@x2nSat.com
Media Contact for Spaceport America:
David Wilson
+1.575.640.8228
dwilson@zianet.com