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We doubled the size of our network today as 36 new Swarm satellites took a
@SpaceX
ride up to Low Earth Orbit. With 72 commercial
#satellites
now on the job, our network has 30% lower latency, opening up more use cases than ever for our customers around the world!
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We launched and made contact with 28 more satellites today, bringing our total to 120! Thanks
@SpaceflightInc
and
@SpaceX
for the smooth ride to orbit. Help us put these new 28 to work! Join the world's lowest-cost satellite network today:
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12 more VHF satellites join our Swarm constellation from the
@SpaceX
Transporter-4 launch! Thanks for the smooth ride to space!
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12 more VHF satellites join our Swarm constellation from the
@SpaceX
Transporter-6 launch! Thanks for the smooth ride to space!
Falcon 9 launches SpaceX’s sixth dedicated smallsat rideshare mission – completing our 200th successful launch!
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We are excited to announce that Swarm just received its commercial license from the
@FCC
for its commercial spectrum and launch of our 150 satellite constellation! We thank
@AjitPaiFCC
and the Commission for their hard work over the last year.
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We launched our latest 24 satellites tonight and have made contact with them! This brings our commercial constellation to 36, more than doubling our network capacity for our customers. Thanks
@RocketLab
for the smooth ride to space!
Payload deployment confirmed! All 30 small sats delivered to their precise spots on orbit.
Congratulations
@aucklandspace
,
@trisept777
,
@UnseenLabs
,
@SwarmInternet
.
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Swarm is proud to announce the close of our $25 million Series A funding round. This investment will allow us to launch our entire constellation, grow our team, scale our operations and move closer to our goal of providing global connectivity.
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We've heard from our satellites and they are operating beautifully. Let's put them to work! The Swarm network is live - get in touch to find out how we can supercharge your IoT connectivity: or info
@swarm
.space
We doubled the size of our network today as 36 new Swarm satellites took a
@SpaceX
ride up to Low Earth Orbit. With 72 commercial
#satellites
now on the job, our network has 30% lower latency, opening up more use cases than ever for our customers around the world!
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Swarm customer SHAPE is deploying its devices in one of New Zealand’s most remote islands — the Campbell Island/Moutere Ihupuku Marine Reserve. This site is remote, rugged, windswept, and a cornerstone of New Zealand’s subantarctic World Heritage Site!
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We successfully launched our first 12 commercial satellites aboard a
#Vega
rocket tonight and have now made contact with them! We’ll begin commissioning shortly and look forward to announcing more details on our commercial services soon.
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Introducing the Swarm Eval Kit! This out-of-the-box satellite comms kit makes global connectivity more accessible than ever. Send messages or GPS locations, or create your own sensor suite that can transmit data from anywhere on Earth. Available online now
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Thanks
@chamath
for your early belief in Swarm! We’re excited to be growing our incredible, fast-paced, talented team. Swarm is
#hiring
across customer success, sales, sales engineering, software and hardware engineering, and recruiting!
We’ve been steadily building an entire commercial constellation of low cost IoT satellites that now cover the entire Earth.
This is an amazing place to work if you love space, satellites and connectivity.
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Our new satellites are performing well and have been heard by all of our ground stations. Over 2.7M data packets to date have already been sent across the Swarm network, and we’re excited to watch that number grow as we onboard customers this year!
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We talked to
@TheSpaceGal
about democratizing the space industry, getting girls interested in STEM, and how diverse hiring improves technology. Read it all in our latest
#SwarmChats
!
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Swarm is now commercially available! 72 satellites (and counting) are ready to support your remote IoT use cases, from farm fields to shipping lanes. $5/month data, 100% global coverage, and you can join today!
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Our next 24
#satellites
are ready to go! They will be launching with
@RocketLab
out of New Zealand in November.
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We're excited to launch the Swarm Asset Tracker, available online for just $99! This product provides an end-to-end solution for tracking equipment, vehicles, and other remote assets (with 100% global coverage via our satellite network). Get yours today!
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We have now made successful contact with all 12 satellites and all are healthy! The Swarm team is continuing commissioning and satellite identification. Stay tuned for further updates.
We successfully launched our first 12 commercial satellites aboard a
#Vega
rocket tonight and have now made contact with them! We’ll begin commissioning shortly and look forward to announcing more details on our commercial services soon.
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We've imaged a Swarm satellite! One of our engineers
@turndownformars
captured SPACEBEE-8 (the dot), with stars appearing as streaks. Swarm satellites are 50x fainter than what is visible by eye, and due to their rapid motion, are very difficult to resolve in astronomical images.
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Fourteen Swarm satellites built in a week, with vibration, shock, and thermal vacuum testing complete!
#TechTuesday
#smallsat
#rapidmanufacturing
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We are thrilled to announce that we’re fully licensed to begin commercial operations! With our
@FCC
Part 25 and 1M User Devices licenses, we are ready to start bringing affordable satellite connectivity to the world.
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From Australia to the Amazon, we've seen the human and environmental devastation that wildfires cause.
@DryadNetworks
detects smoke and gas before they become a blaze... and that black Swarm antenna transmits the alert out of remote forests to the fire crews who need to know.
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The
@SparkFun
team just released their breakout board for the Swarm modem along with an Arduino library and interactive Python interface! Do you have a remote device that you want to monitor? Now you can, within hours of receiving the breakout board.
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"Swarm Technologies aims to connect smart devices around the world with a low-bandwidth but ever-present network provided by satellites — and it just got approval from the FCC to do so."
@TechCrunch
@SwarmInternet
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The Swarm Asset Tracker was highlighted today in a new
@TransportTopics
article by
@SethClevenger
! Read more here: .
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From launching 75 satellites and two new products, to growing our customer base by 1500% and joining the SpaceX team, 2021 was Swarm's most exciting and impactful year yet! 🚀 Take a look at some of the year's highlights in our latest blog post.
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Congratulations
@Virgin_Orbit
on the successful demo launch and satellite deployment over the weekend! We look forward to launching Swarm satellites on a future Virgin rocket 🚀
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We are super excited to share
@sparkfun
's release of the Swarm M138 Modem Transceiver Kit! Visit the product page here to learn more and purchase your kit today:
Live out your childhood super-spy dreams by using our new
@SwarmInternet
's Satellite Transceiver Kit to utilize Swarm's satellite network to send and receive data from orbit 😎 Learn more about it in our newest Product Showcase👇
#swarm
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Swarm developed a custom thermalvac chamber for envr testing of our sats & ground hardware. W/ a range of -220C to +250C, 1e-7 Torr to 760 Torr (1 atm), we're able to reproduce the most extreme environments anywhere on surface of Earth, and in space! Thanks
@Redline_Chamber
!
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2020 was our most exciting and impactful year yet! Take a look at our top highlights and get a sneak peak of what's coming in 2021:
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A student intern at
@libelium
, Raúl Estremar, integrated Swarm's modem and services into their platform to transmit critical sensor data needed to prevent forest fires. Learn more about the development and integration process on their website here!
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Swarm now supports more customers and use cases than ever before! Our latest launch doubled our network size, reduced latency, and brought us a big step closer to completing our 150-satellite commercial constellation. Read all about it:
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Check out this model of Swarm’s continuous global coverage
#constellation
once fully deployed!
#SmallSat
#IoT
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With a little more than a day of flight ops completed with Swarm's 12 commercial satellites, we have now been able to test all of the Swarm ground stations that we have deployed around the world. The data is streaming in!
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With all 12 commercial satellites healthy, we are excited to announce our products & pricing in the next few weeks! Read the note from our CEO here:
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We're hard at work making Swarm Tiles at our lab in Mountain View. These will start going out to our Early Access customers later this year!
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Join us today at 5pm PT for a
@Caltech
public lecture by Swarm CEO
@sara_spangelo
. Sara will discuss her vision for the future of low-cost global connectivity, her path to becoming a startup founder, and more! See details and register here:
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Welcome to the Swarm network,
@Wovyn
! Congratulations on your first transmission and we can’t wait to hear many more from you!
Ok, this is very cool. I just sent my first IoT data via satellite using
@SwarmInternet
leveraging their 1/4U micro satellites. We live in amazing times! Now to hack some more code and get my sensor array transmitting at regular intervals. This is 2021 ... imagine next year!
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Farmers need to transmit all kinds of data from their fields, but rural connectivity can be a major challenge. Swarm CTO
@longmier
tells
@farmpress
how ultra low-cost satellite connectivity can be a game-changer. Now that's what we call farm 🌽 to space🚀
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10 million+ data packets sent on the Swarm network! 🎉 IoT sensors and trackers are transmitting critical data from every corner of the globe at 4-20x lower cost than with legacy providers. See how much you could save by switching to Swarm:
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We’ve announced our products & pricing! We’re excited to be bringing the world one step closer to affordable global connectivity with the rollout of our commercial services. See all the details on our blog.
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Swarm wants to offer a global connectivity solution that is affordable and that will enable us to connect the world in powerful and unprecedented ways.
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3 million data packets sent on the Swarm network and counting! Our 36 commercial satellites have been busy transmitting data from around the world. Check out our real-time counter to watch the number climb:
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We're happy to report that the Swarm Tile Eval Kit can successfully transmit indoors, in a city, next to a Christmas tree! Now that’s some holiday magic 🎄🎅
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Staying at a remote cabin, camping, or spending the weekend on a boat? The Swarm Eval Kit lets you communicate from your phone anywhere, at all times, and impress your friends doing it! The kit comes ready out-of-the-box so you can start sending messages via space in minutes!
Introducing the Swarm Eval Kit! This out-of-the-box satellite comms kit makes global connectivity more accessible than ever. Send messages or GPS locations, or create your own sensor suite that can transmit data from anywhere on Earth. Available online now
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An animation of our future 2-way communications constellation in Low Earth Orbit. A 2.5 hr time period is condensed into 10 seconds. Now that Swarm has obtained its commercial license for spectrum and launch from the FCC, the team will deploy all 150 satellites in 2020.
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Swarm is hiring! Join our team as a Full Stack Software Engineer and help lead the development of cutting edge satellite communications solutions for potential customers around the world. Follow the link for full description.
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RanchSense's IoT devices provide ranchers with the data they need to keep their livestock healthy. With satellite connectivity by Swarm & hardware by
@freewavetech
, RanchSense can monitor trough levels, weather patterns, and more from remote, unconnected pastures.
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New Zealand-based
@motiv_io
's IoT solutions monitor the power, temp, and health of equipment in the most remote corners of the world. Swarm's global satellite coverage means Motiv's devices can operate everywhere they're needed, even mountain tops accessible only by helicopter!
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The
@sparkfun
Satellite Transceiver Breakout board enables any user to access the full functionality of the Swarm network via the Swarm M138 Modem. Read more here:
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Sofar's Spotter buoys gather weather data that helps make maritime shipping routes faster, safer, and use less fuel. With Swarm's low-cost, durable satellite modems on board,
@Sofarocean
can afford to deploy more sensors and transmit more data, even in the middle of the ocean!
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A big congratulations to our CEO and co-founder,
@sara_spangelo
, on being named one of MIT
@techreview
's 2021 Innovators under 35! Read more about Sara's journey with Swarm and check out the other inspiring innovators on the list.
Meet this year's 35 brilliant young entrepreneurs, inventors, visionaries, humanitarians and pioneers who are working to make the world a better place.
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We’re excited to announce a partnership with
@SemtechCorp
to use their
#LoRa
tech. LoRa helps Swarm provide users all over the world with low power, low cost, 2-way connectivity and opens up new use cases across agriculture, logistics, maritime, and more!
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Swarm has completed qualification and acceptance vibe testing on our next two satellites (one flight unit shown, with two mass models). The next two SpaceBEEs will be deployed into LEO soon on
@RocketLab
!
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Swarm's CEO
@sara_spangelo
spoke at
@UCBerkeley
's
#SpaceSymposium
#Spring2019Stac
event last night about the evolution of the space industry, starting a space start-up, and recruiting! Great to share the stage with the inspiring entrepreneur
@rmolney
!
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Our team loved hosting the all-girls FIRST Robotics Competition Team from San Jose’s Presentation HS last week at Swarm HQ! We covered educational paths, finding your passion, and the journey to start Swarm. So many smart, curious, and bright young women!
#WomenInSTEM
#IoT
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Swarm and
@SweetSensors
are teaming up to tackle
#groundwater
sustainability! See how in-field sensors & low-cost global connectivity make it easy for water managers to collect and transmit accurate well data to meet
#sustainability
targets:
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Introducing Swarm: The World’s Lowest-Cost Global Communications Network
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Good news — the
@SparkFun
breakout boards are back in stock! If you're looking to start prototyping with different sensors or monitor your remote devices, this board enables you to get up and running on the Swarm network within hours. Gets yours today!
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Swarm is proud to provide the low-cost satellite connectivity that
@SweetSenseInc
needs to return its IoT data from rural fields around the world, and to support their mission of improving environmental resource management worldwide!
#OnlyOneEarth
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Agtech companies have been paying a fortune for legacy satellite solutions due to rural connectivity challenges... but new entrants are changing the game! We look at 3 ways new low-cost
#satellite
data is supercharging the
#agtech
industry:
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Thanks
@ProfEvanThomas
for stopping by the lab! Excited to have our first integrated Tile in a
@sweetsensors
Gateway! We’re proud to be partnering with SweetSense to provide connectivity for their water monitoring devices in Africa and worldwide.
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Honored to be mentioned during
@FCC
Chairman
@AjitPaiFCC
's speech at the
@USChamber
Chamber of Commerce in DC.
@SwarmInternet
is on track to enable global connectivity in the US and overseas in early 2020!
Full video of the event here:
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With Swarm,
@ModuSense
now pays 50x less relative to their previous satellite provider! From monitoring weather to bee colony health and more, Swarm enables ModuSense to affordably deploy their IoT devices at scale and reliably transmit their data outside of cell service.
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Fishing & aquaculture companies often rely on satellite for remote device connectivity, both on- and off-shore, but not all networks are created equal. From coverage to cost, we look at 3 factors to consider when choosing a satellite provider:
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We had a great time sharing the stage with Bill Ford talking about the future of mobility from the streets to the skies to space!
#CityofTomorrow
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@SpaceX
2) Starlink was designed to connect the unconnected and this new technology will greatly expand that mission!
You can learn more about the program at and through tonight's announcement stream: .
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The Swarm Eval Kit is on sale through Dec 31! Message your friends from a remote cabin or build an IoT sensor that can transmit out at sea with this out-of-the-box kit that instantly connects you to the Swarm satellite network 🌎🛰️ Pre-order yours today!
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“We can send more data with Swarm, capture more real-time measurements, and put more Spotters in the water.”
Learn how Swarm is helping
@Sofarocean
affordably deploy more sensors to make maritime shipping faster, safer, and more sustainable. (paywall)
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Swarm and
@motiv_io
have teamed up to monitor and transmit data on critical comms equipment in remote New Zealand for
@docgovtnz
. From keeping search & rescue teams connected to reducing CO2 emissions, read more about this great partnership!
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Excited to be working with the world-class
@LeoLabs_Space
team, and their state-of-the-art tracking and conjunction model tech...helping to keep all space objects tracked and safe!
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The water purification and power generation system by
@OffGridBox
is improving access to clean water and electricity in East Africa. 🚰☀️ With
@ezesys
's IoT sensors and Swarm's low-cost satellite network,
@OffGridBox
can monitor their equipment from even the most remote areas.
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Great
@etechbrew
article by
@jwmcdonald1944
highlighting the important work that
@DryadNetworks
is doing to detect and prevent wildfires!
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The weight, humidity & temp of a beehive tells a lot about a colony's health.
@ModuSense
's hive monitoring systems gather this critical data for beekeepers, and Swarm's global satellite connectivity reliably transmits it back to them, even from hives in off-the-grid locations! 🐝
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Happy
#InternationalWomensDay
from Swarm! We're proud and grateful to have so many women supporting our mission. We would not be where we are today without the dedication of our largely female team - our CEO, 2 advisors, 3 investors, and 6 teammates!
#WomenInSTEM
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Wildfires not only destroy C02 sponges🌲, they contribute up to 20% of global CO2 emissions. That's more than all forms of transportation combined! This
#ClimateWeek
, learn how our partner
@DryadNetworks
is stopping wildfires before they get out of hand.
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We're excited to announce SpaceBEEs 8 and 9 have been successfully deployed from the rocket and are in space! This brings the total to 9 communications sats in LEO! Congrats
@RocketLab
!
#MakeItRain
@SpaceflightInc
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To launch our new
#SwarmChats
interview series, we spoke with Jonny Dyer, former Chief Engineer of Skybox, about bringing a software mindset to space, his advice to early startups, and channeling his inner George Costanza. Check it out:
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With Swarm's global satellite coverage & low-power, durable modems,
@YDOCbiz
's versatile data loggers can be deployed in harsh, off-the-grid environments - from Alaska to Brazil - to capture and transmit temperature, wind speed, water oxygen levels, and more!
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Optiweigh provides farmers with more accurate & frequent cattle weight measurements to monitor herd health. With Swarm, farmers can use
@optiweigh
units in even the most remote parts of Australia, and pay 1/3 of what they were paying previously for a legacy satellite solution!
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From
@Via_Satellite
"The FCC gave Swarm approval to launch 150 satellites. Swarm will be able to “construct, deploy, and operate a constellation of 150 technically identical non-voice, non-geostationary (NVNG) satellites in the low earth orbit (LEO)"
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Check out the latest
@Siemens
Future Car podcast to learn how Swarm’s low-cost solution makes tracking every car, truck, and container - from assembly line to backroads - feasible for the first time.
#logistics
#transportation
#iotconnectivity
#satellite
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In the dry Australian Outback, farmers need to carefully measure water levels to keep their crops & livestock alive 🌽🐄
@yabbysensors
is helping farmers remotely monitor their water tanks, bores, & troughs across thousands of miles, & Swarm is bringing back that data!
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"I was amazed at how easy the Eval Kit was to use. I am starting to play with the API to push messages into an Azure instance with a goal to be automatically notified when the device changes its GPS coordinates."
We love these
#SwarmEvalKit
success stories - thanks,
@kt_work
!
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With Swarm's global satellite coverage & low-power modems,
@YDOCbiz
's versatile data loggers can be deployed in harsh, off-the-grid environments - from Alaska to Brazil - to capture and transmit temperature, wind speed, water oxygen levels, and more! 🛰️
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Swarm CTO and Co-Founder
@longmier
in Antarctica in front of Swarm's vertical antenna which is used to communicate with our sats in LEO that pass over this station every 94 minutes. We custom built these antennas and rated them to -60C temperatures and 200 MPH wind speeds.
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Congratulations to
@LeoLabs_Space
on the completion of their next-generation New Zealand radar! We're proud to use
@LeoLabs_Space
's services for high-precision tracking of our satellites.
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We’re excited to announce a global integration partnership with
@LayerXGroup
. LayerX makes remote data collection easy and affordable across various industries, and their engineers can help Swarm customers streamline device integration and transmit faster!
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As we continue to grow our commercial constellation, we look forward to partnering with
@EXOLAUNCH
to launch 24 additional Swarm
#satellites
in December.
#Falcon9
first dedicated
#rideshare
is targeting
#launch
in December.
@Exolaunch
is thrilled to partner with
@SpaceX
&
@Swarm
to accommodate 24 Swarm
#satellites
out of their planned 150 sats on this landmark mission.
@KlenderJoey
for
@teslarati
writes:
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CTO and co-founder
@longmier
explains our flight unit model that recently passed qual and acceptance vibe testing, and will be deployed via
@RocketLab
in our next launch!
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LPWAN, WiFi, cell, satellite... With so many IoT connectivity options, finding the right solution for your use case can be overwhelming. To help, we compare 5 of the most common solutions and prioritize the decision criteria in our latest blog post:
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