{"id":20983,"date":"2020-10-16T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=20983"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:04:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:04:45","slug":"u-m-alum-expands-new-global-communications-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/10\/16\/u-m-alum-expands-new-global-communications-network\/","title":{"rendered":"U-M alum expands new global communications network"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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U-M alum Sara Spangelo<\/strong>, co-founder and CEO of\u00a0Swarm, is establishing the world\u2019s lowest-cost global communications network for customers in remote locations by using breakthrough satellite and ground hardware technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In September, Swarm<\/a> launched its first 12 commercial satellites from the Guiana Space Centre at Kourou, French Guiana. This set of 12 satellites joins Swarm\u2019s existing nine experimental satellites. The company plans to reach its full constellation of 150 commercial satellites by 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is a major milestone for Swarm as we now have our first commercial satellites in space,\u201d says Spangelo. \u201cWe will begin supporting customers with data connectivity very soon, allowing them to expand their reach at an unprecedented scale.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

U-M alum Sara Spangelo, co-founder and CEO of\u00a0Swarm, is establishing the world\u2019s lowest-cost global communications network for customers in remote locations by using breakthrough satellite and ground hardware technology. In September, Swarm launched its first 12 commercial satellites from the Guiana Space Centre at Kourou, French Guiana. This set of 12 satellites joins Swarm\u2019s existing nine experimental satellites. The company\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[178,302,21,256],"class_list":["post-20983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-business","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-innovation","tag-network"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/images.png",279,186,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/images-200x133.png",200,133,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/images.png",279,186,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/images.png",279,186,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/images.png",279,186,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/images.png",279,186,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/images.png",279,186,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/images-200x140.png",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/images-60x42.png",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/images.png",279,186,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/images.png",279,186,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/images.png",279,186,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"U-M alum Sara Spangelo, co-founder and CEO of\u00a0Swarm, is establishing the world\u2019s lowest-cost global communications network for customers in remote locations by using breakthrough satellite and ground hardware technology. In September, Swarm launched its first 12 commercial satellites from the Guiana Space Centre at Kourou, French Guiana. This set of 12 satellites joins Swarm\u2019s existing nine experimental…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20983"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21102,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20983\/revisions\/21102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}