Just like your cellphone stays connected by roaming between networks, NASA’s Polylingual Experimental Terminal, or PExT, technology demonstration is proving space missions can do the same by switching seamlessly between government and commercial communications networks.
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Commercial Space, Communicating and Navigating with Missions, Space Communications Technology, Technology Demonstration
Posted on
December 19, 2025
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