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Globalstar, Inc. [NASDAQ:GSAT has signed an agreement with Radyne Corporation business unit AeroAstro to purchase AeroAstro’s SENS (Sensor Enabled Notification System) Appliqués. The technology will be used to further expand Globalstar’s Simplex data geographic coverage and grow its Simplex data customer capacity in Asia and Latin America. The SENS Appliqué, an AeroAstro proprietary digital signal processing infrastructure component installed at key Globalstar ground stations, receives and decodes asset tracking, location and data monitoring information from remote Simplex integrated modems solutions via the Globalstar satellite network. The received information can then be processed and distributed to users via the Internet.


Globalstar’s voice and dial-up data coverage map
According to the agreement, AeroAstro will provide Globalstar with the asset tracking satellite downlink decoder racks, spares kits, and the necessary software upgrades needed to enhance the capability of those Globalstar satellite gateway ground stations not currently providing Simplex data coverage. Deliveries of the hardware and software upgrades are scheduled to begin later this year—Milpitas, California