Mangata Aiming for Commercial Service in 2025, Urges FCC Approval

Mangata expects to have Round B funding completed later this year, a trial network operational in late 2023, and full service launched in the first half of 2025, it told FCC International Bureau staffers, per an ex parte filing Friday. Launch, payload development and gateway development supplier contracts were signed this year, it said. It urged approval of its 2-year-old U.S. market access application for its planned 791-satellite non-geostationary orbit constellation (see 2005270010).