Space on a shoestring
Can reusable rockets bring down launch costs enough to meet growing market needs and create wider access to space? Keith J Fernandez investigates.
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Can reusable rockets bring down launch costs enough to meet growing market needs and create wider access to space? Keith J Fernandez investigates.
With this launch, Plan-S is preparing to roll out commercial services using the Connecta IoT Network.
The three Falcon 9 launches contracted by Project Kuiper are slated to commence in mid-2025.
The launch campaign, scheduled to commence in 2026, will lift off from SpaceX's launch facilities in California and Florida.
It'll take four to five months for the satellite to reach its operational orbit.
The satellite has an onboard module that allows direct NB-IoT connection for any 5G device upgraded Rel 17 NTN.
During the mission, Al Neyadi will conduct many in-depth and advanced scientific experiments as part of the UAE Astronaut Programme.
ION is a versatile and cost-effective OTV designed to precisely deploy satellites and perform orbital demonstrations of third-party payloads hosted onboard.
Hotbird 13G satellite is designed to provide up to 1,000 television channels, including high-definition television broadcasts of 4K video, to over 160m households across MENA and Europe.
The Falcon 9 mission will take place at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California in mid-2023.
The first mission under the agreement will launch no sooner than November 2022 on a SpaceX Falcon 9.
NASA awarded a contract to SpaceX in February 2021 for the Falcon 9 launch for SPHEREx alone, valued at $98.8m.
Satellogic announced a similar agreement with SpaceX in January 2021 covering four rideshare launches.
Satellogic has planned to have 34 commercial satellites in orbit by the end of Q1 2023 and more than 200 satellites in orbit by 2025.
The MP42 mission has marked the finale of NanoAvionics GIoT R&D project, to provide constellation-as-a-service in a business-to-business setup to existing and emerging IoT/M2M operators.
On February 25, a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California will launch another set of Starlink satellites.
Yahsat claims to be well positioned for future growth with contracted future revenues of more than $2bn from significant new Commercial and Government deals secured in Q3 2021.
It was the first dedicated launch of Starlink satellites to polar orbit.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 will launch Thuraya 4-NGS, being built by Airbus for Yahsat, in H2 of 2023.
SpaceX also transported a total of six Planet SkySats to orbit in June 2020 and August 2020 alongside SpaceX Starlink broadband satellites.
Spartan is a 6U NanoSat on SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying seven payloads on a single bus.
Orbiters first mission is scheduled for October 2022, when it will fly on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare mission.
QMR-KWT space mission is to empower students to contribute to the advancement of satellite communication technology.
The satellite will operate in the S-band spectrum and will feature a large unfurling antenna reflector.
SpaceX is preparing for another Falcon 9 launch next Sunday, March 21, at 12:37 AM EDT (0437 GMT) with the next batch of Starlink satellites.
The data collected will help astronomers understand how the universe was created.
IM has been chosen by NASA to deliver the Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment (PRIME-1) drill, combined with a mass spectrometer, to the Moon by December 2022.
Company begins launch campaign for US and European customers flying aboard Falcon 9.
The proposed timeframe for the mission is said to be no earlier than mid-to-late May, NASA said on its website.
Intelsat 40e is a geostationary satellite that will provide Intelsats government and enterprise customers across North and Central America with high throughput, coast-to-coast services.
Iridium Communications Inc. has announced that all five Iridium NEXT satellites for its sixth launch are in processing at SpaceX?s west coast launch site, Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. ...
