{"id":240611,"date":"2026-07-10T15:08:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T20:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/apolink-makes-contact-with-first-relay-satellite"},"modified":"2026-07-10T15:08:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T20:08:42","slug":"apolink-makes-contact-with-first-relay-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/apolink-makes-contact-with-first-relay-satellite","title":{"rendered":"Apolink makes contact with first relay satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/apolink-makes-contact-with-first-relay-satellite2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Apolink has made contact with its first satellite after launching on SpaceX\u2019s July 7 rideshare mission, clearing the way for a data relay demonstration using a novel experimental license from the Federal Communications Commission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got a first-of-its-kind experimental license for S-band inter-satellite link operations from the FCC,\u201d Apolink CEO Onkar Batra told SpaceNews, enabling the IPoS-TDsM cubesat to receive signals from other satellites in low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.fcc.gov\/els\/GetAtt.html?id=402886&x=\">The license<\/a> clears the 3U cubesat to receive S-band signals from designated partner satellites on an unprotected and non-interference basis, before storing and forwarding them <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/rbc-signals-partners-with-in-orbit-relay-developer-apolink\/\">to approved ground stations<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Apolink has made contact with its first satellite after launching on SpaceX\u2019s July 7 rideshare mission, clearing the way for a data relay demonstration using a novel experimental license from the Federal Communications Commission. \u201cWe\u2019ve got a first-of-its-kind experimental license for S-band inter-satellite link operations from the FCC,\u201d Apolink CEO Onkar Batra [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}