UbiquitiLink tested its first payload in February on a Cygnus launch vehicle. Astronauts attached the UbiquitiLink payload to the nose of a Cygnus capsule before it left the space station with a load of trash. UbiquitiLink tested its technology for five days aboard Cygnus before the capsule burned up in Earth’s atmosphere.

Lynk will start testing cellular connectivity services with its first small satellite in the near future as it plans to begin commercial service early next year.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...