Welcome to Sattel Technologies

Supplier of aerospace products to governments.

    Sattel Technologies, headquartered in Los Angeles, designed and manufactured satellite telecommunication products between 1984 and 2001 that remain in worldwide use today.  Sattel's founder and CEO was George Weischadle, an engineer who helped to design America's first satellite network, WESTAR, and Asia's first regional satellite network, PALAPA.  Mr. Weischadle holds degrees in electrical engineering, business, and law.

    Sattel made history when it purchased an in-orbit telecommunications satellite from an insurance group following a Shuttle ejection failure, returned it to earth on the Space Shuttle through a venture with NASA, then refurbished and relaunched it through subcontracts Sattel awarded to Hughes Aircraft and McDonnell Douglas Corp.  It became the world's first reconditioned satellite in space.  Still in service today, the Palapa B2-R satellite has a rich and unique history.

    Sattel's customers and vendors include governments, 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 multiple public telecom network signaling standards.

Major Public Network Installations Worldwide 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		On the Launch Pad Photo: Courtesy NASA

    Our new venture GPSTOO is applying aerospace technology to new wireless geolocation solutions.  GPSTOO is an alternative geolocation technology to GPS that enables persons and assets to be located indoors and out, seamlessly throughout the world.  It has none of the indoor limitations inherent in satellite geolocation.  GPS will never work this well indoors.  It is in operation on a trial basis and will soon be expanded worldwide.  We are seeking companies interested in participating in its worldwide rollout.

    GPSTOO's revolutionary indoor/outdoor security services are made possible by our team's unique expertise in aerospace, RF and signal processing technologies. 

    The geolocation system provides seamless metropolitan and rural security coverage indoors and out.  It helps keep families connected and secure at all times.  A "wireless lifeline", GPSTOO gives parents and caregivers the ability to locate their children and at-risk adults, whether across the street or across town, even if they are unable to assist others in locating them.

And in the asset protection industry GPSTOO powers new-generation consumer products that "can't be lost"^sm.  Embedded on the motherboard of a laptop computer, for example, it enables an owner to find his lost or stolen laptop at any time, even if it is concealed indoors, powered off, and disconnected from the Internet.   

    Such powerful security has not been available until today, and one can think of few needs that are more important to our society. As we expand worldwide we will post updates to our Web site.  Please feel free to contact us with questions or comments.
 

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