Sattel Technologies

           A Leader in Aerospace Technology

 

 

Welcome to Sattel Technologies

 

An innovative manufacturer of advanced aerospace products.

Sattel Technologies, headquartered in Los Angeles, developed and manufactured satellite telecommunication products that remain in worldwide use today.  Sattel's founder and CEO was George Weischadle, a pioneer in commercial satellite systems who helped to design America's first satellite network, WESTAR, and Asia's first satellite network, PALAPA.  

The company made history when it purchased an in-orbit telecommunications satellite from an insurance group, brought it back to earth on the Space Shuttle through a venture with NASA, then refurbished and relaunched it in cooperation with Hughes Aircraft and McDonnell Douglas Corp. to become the world's first reconditioned satellite in space.  Still in service today, the Palapa B2-R satellite has a unique history.

Sattel's customers and vendors include major government telecom network operators worldwide, NASA, McDonnell Douglas and Hughes Aircraft Co.  Our accomplishments include the first digitally-implemented Intelsat Super-VISTA satellite modem; the first commercial implementation of European GSM standards on satellite links; and the largest Demand Assignment Multiple Access (DAMA) public telecommunications system of its time, interconnecting developed and developing countries with disparate public telecom network signaling standards. 

Customer Product
Australia, Perth SCPC-DAMA international gateway, Indian Ocean Region
Australia, Sydney SCPC-DAMA international gateway, Pacific Ocean Region
China Local telephone exchanges and remote concentrators
C.I.S., Moscow PSTN earth terminal, international
Cook Islands PSTN earth terminals, domestic, solar-powered
Fiji PSTN earth terminal, international
Guatemala SCPC-DAMA domestic satellite network serving 150 cities
Indonesia SCPC-DAMA regional public network serving 300+ cities
Indonesia SCPC-DAMA regional private network for S.E. Asia
Indonesia Local telephone exchanges
Kazahkstan PSTN earth terminal, international
Kiribati PSTN earth terminals, domestic and international
Marshall Islands PSTN earth terminals, domestic
Nauru PSTN earth terminals, international
New Zealand PSTN earth terminals, international
Nigeria SCPC satellite terminal network, domestic
Niue PSTN satellite terminal, international
Philippines Local PSTN telephone exchanges
Sakhalin Island PSTN satellite terminal, international
Syria PSTN tandem telephone exchange
Taiwan Local and tandem PSTN telephone exchanges
U.S.A. Local and tandem PSTN telephone exchanges
Western Samoa PSTN satellite terminal, international

NOTES:
PSTN = Public Switched Telephone Network
SCPC = Single Channel per Carrier
DAMA = Demand Assignment Multiple Access

 

 

 

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GPS covers the outdoors.
Only SafeLinktm protects people where they live and work.

 

Our new venture SafeLink, Inc. is applying advanced aerospace technology to new wireless security solutions.  SafeLink will enable persons and assets to be located indoors and out, seamlessly throughout metropolitan areas, with none of the limitations inherent in GPS and cellular geo-location technologies.  GPS and cellular will never work this well indoors.  SafeLink is actively seeking companies interested in assisting with product development.

SafeLink's revolutionary indoor security services are made possible by our team's unique experience in aerospace, RF and signal processing technologies. 

The SafeLink wireless security system will provide seamless metropolitan area security both indoors and out to help keep families connected and secure at all times and to enable a new generation of consumer products that "can't be lost"sm.

A "wireless lifeline", SafeLink will afford parents and caregivers the ability to locate their young children and other at-risk persons whenever desired, whether they are across the street or across town, even if they are unable to assist others in locating them. 

Such powerful security has not been available until today, and one can think of few needs that are more important to our society.

Thank you for your interest in our products.  As we progress we will post updates to our Web site.  Please feel free to contact us with questions or comments.
 

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