Lynk (Tower)

• Commence in 2020 with 24 to 36 satellites in orbit. By 2023, UbiquitiLink plans to have several thousand satellites in orbit for continuous worldwide coverage.
• Those initial 10 satellites will launch on SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare missions. A “baseline launch schedule” included in the application projects launching one satellite into a polar orbit in December, followed by thee to polar orbit in July 2022 and six to a mid-inclination orbit in December 2022.
• Lynk needs about 1,000 satellites for full continuous broadband coverage, which the company expects to reach in 2025. Then it will continue to add new satellites to increase coverage density until it reaches its full constellation size of about 5,000 satellites.
• Hopes to deploy three more satellites in late spring 2023 around the time of its planned commercial debut.
• Has secured funding to launch three more satellites fall 2023, and has funding commitments to deploy another six in January. The company aims to be operating more than 50 satellites by the end of 2024, and has plans for a constellation of around 5,000 satellites in total.

• Lynk announced May 25 that it filed the FCC application using the commission’s streamlined licensing process for smallsats established in 2019. The company hopes that approach will allow it to begin commercial services with a first group of satellites within a year.
• Miller added, though, that the Lynk system won’t be limited to messaging services. As both the number of satellites and the capability of individual satellites grows, he said the system could provide voice and other data services as well, including potentially broadband, depending on the capacity of the overall network.
• In 2021, Lynk announced it has registered hundreds of unmodified mobile phones to its 5th cell-tower-in-space in three different countries (UK, US and Bahamas).
• Lynk Global to Evaluate mPower Technology’s DragonSCALES Product in Low-Earth Orbit, 2021-07-13.
• Lynk announces successful deployment of the world's first commercial cell-tower-in-space on April 1,2022.
• Lynk Completes Pre-Commercial Trials for 5th Satellite ahead of Commercial Launch.
• Second commercial Lynk Global satellite still looking for launch, 2022-07-08.
• Note to smallsat propulsion providers: Get your price down. A lot of propulsion companies want to charge us more than the cost of the entire rest of the satellite. This is crazy. Much of the small satellite thruster community is Mom and Pop shop economics. They want to build 10 and make all their money. We are talking to lots of them about getting the price down. The satellite industry is used to providing in dozens, when we are moving to thousands. You need to rethink your business to be a great supplier to satellite companies that are manufacturing in the thousands.
• There is actually a significant benefit to doing all this in-house and the industry needs to overcome that. Contract manufacturers that might be a good fit have given us quotes, and given our knowledge of how much it costs us to do it, it’s like 10X our cost. It’s shocking — 10 times what we know the cost is.
• Our plan is to ramp up to build 200 per month of the Gen 2 system. That would take us two years to build out 5,000 satellites. That meets our plan. Our projections on what we need to ramp up once we start generating revenue on Gen 1 is several hundreds of millions for our Series C.
• A mobile operator in the Pacific island nation of Palau is set to be the first to use Lynk Global’s direct-to-device satellites commercially to keep wireless customers connected outside terrestrial network coverage.
• Started initial direct-to-device services in a small part of the Cook Islands in its second commercial launch with a local telco, SpaceNews, 2023-08-09.
• Lynk Signs Letter of Intent to Become Publicly-Listed, 2023-12-18. Slam Corp returns $176 million ahead of proposed Lynk Global merger. Now has less than $99 million in its trust account SpaceNews, 2023-12-28.
• Lynk Global finalizes SPAC merger deal, 2024-02-05.
• Lynk Global Signs Satellite-to-Cell Contract with US DoD, 2024-04-25.

Lynk’s groundbreaking and patented technology allows people to affordably connect to anyone, anywhere, with just the mobile phone in their pocket. Providing universal connectivity across the planet allows people in far-flung communities to connect, grow, and thrive by participating in local and global economies. 

• Lynk 04 (ULTP, Lynk CubeSat)