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UK based Sky and Space Global
Ltd. has been nominated for
the prestigious Global Mobile
Awards 2019 (GLOMO Awards),
with winners to be announced
at the Mobile World Congress
held annually in Barcelona.
The company is in the process
of deploying 200 highly
sophisticated nano-satellites
above the Equatorial Belt. The
congress is being held this year on February 25-28. SAS
was one of the five nominees shortlisted for an award in the
category “Best Mobile Innovation for Emerging Markets”,
along with Huawei, Lumos, Mavenir and Yego Innovation.
The GSMA’s GLOMO Awards offer organizations the
opportunity to showcase the latest and best mobile
products, apps, devices, services, and initiatives at the
most important mobile event of the year. More than 250
independent judges from across the world are involved in
the award process. The panels comprise leading industry
and specific sector experts, analysts, journalists, academics
and in some cases representatives from mobile operators.
“This is a great honor for SAS and underscores the huge
significance of bringing connectivity to the equatorial
regions of the world,” says Meir Moalem, co-founder,
managing director and chief executive officer at SAS. He
adds that SAS is well on its way to implementing its goal of
providing affordable mobile services in under-served parts
of the world.
SAS, a new space company based in the UK, is listed on
the Australian ASX stock exchange and plans to operate a
network of 200 nano-satellites to provide around the clock
Sky and Space Global Shortlisted for the Best Mobile
Innovation for Emerging Markets MWC Award
affordable voice, data, instant
messaging, M2M and IoT
communications. This is the
essence of the company’s vision
for providing communication
services to anyone, anywhere,
and at any time. SAS’ major
focus is connecting billions of
people that currently have little
or no connectivity at all through
a network of nano-satellites.
The company has European and Israeli development
centers with experts in aerospace, satellites and software.
In June 2017 SAS successfully launched into space its first
three nanosatellites, the ‘3 Diamonds’.
SAS services will also bring to the equatorial region a huge
range of life saving services like search and rescue, disaster
management, emergency response, security alarms and
recreational tracking. This is in addition to a whole range
of traditional services including cellphone applications,
offshore communications, smart farming, interactive TV,
airplane, vessel and animal tracking, water and electric
metering, grid monitoring, and ATM.
The company aims to deliver cost-effective communications
infrastructure and services to those who need it most and to
disrupt the telecommunications and international transport
industries. Sky and Space Global Ltd owns 100% of Sky and
Space Global (UK) Limited.
Sky and Space Global was founded by three Israelis: Meir
Moalem, the company’s Managing Director and CEO;
Meidad Pariente, CTO, and Yonatan Sharma. The company’s
operations are managed from Israel.
Boeing Autonomous Passenger Air Vehicle Completes
First Flight
Boeing NeXt program tests prototype to advance safety
and technology of urban air mobility
Electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle has design
range of up to 50 miles
The PAV prototype completed a controlled takeoff, hover
and landing during the flight, which tested the vehicle’s
autonomous functions and ground control systems. Future
flights will test forward, wing-borne flight, as well
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