Tiger-8

Tiger-7
Tiger-7
Tiger-7
Spacecraft name Tiger-7
Type CubeSat
Units or mass 6U
Organization OQ Technology
Institution Company
Entity type Commercial
Nation Luxembourg
Manufacturer AIVT by NanoAvionics
Costs $2.4 million
Oneliner

Provide 5G coverage for IoT devices based on NB-IoT

Description

Kongsberg NanoAvionics (NanoAvionics) has received an order for three further satellites from 5G telecoms operator OQ Technology. They will be added to OQ Technology’s existing constellation, turning the company into the largest 5G NB-IoT (narrowband Internet of things) satellite operator in the world.

It is NanoAvionics’s fourth contract with OQ Technology, having previously supplied Tiger-2, Tiger-3, and MACSAT missions. Through the collaboration with NanoAvionics, OQ was able to launch the world’s first commercial nanosatellite, Tiger-2 in 2021, that provided 5G coverage for IoT devices based on NB-IoT and a first expansion of their services with Tiger-3 in 2022.

OQ Technology will provide the 5G payload which is based on standard 3GPP Rel. 17 technology, the OQ in-house developed cell tower stack and will take care of launch, satellite operations, spectrum licensing, service and market access. With the recent traction of direct-to-device cellular communication through satellite, OQ Technology is a pioneer in direct cellular IoT to satellite connectivity.

The three 6U nanosatellites, Tiger-4, Tiger-7 and Tiger-8, will be built at NanoAvionics’s new MAIT (manufacturing, assembly, integration, and testing) facility in Vilnius, Lithuania. The facility was setup to meet the demands for serial satellite production for constellations and larger satellites by commercial, civil, and governmental organisations.

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Related Spacecraft

Name Status Rocket Launch date Orbit
Tiger-4 (Layan-23) Operational (News about completing commissioning and handover on 2023-08-03 as of 2023-10-31) Falcon 9, (Transporter-8) 2023-06-12 520 km, 97.5 deg
Tiger-5 Operational (News on 2023-11-14) Falcon 9, (Transporter-9) 2023-11-11 520 km, 97.5 deg
Tiger-6 Operational (News on 2023-11-14) Falcon 9, (Transporter-9) 2023-11-11 520 km, 97.5 deg
Tiger-7 not launched not launched 2024-12-31 not launched
Tiger-8 not launched not launched 2024-12-31 not launched

Last modified: 2023-11-04

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