The Electron launch vehicle successfully deployed the satellites to a 500-km circular orbit, bringing the total number of payloads deployed by Rocket Lab to 65...
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NorthStar's Skylark constellation services are designed to revolutionise the safety of spaceflight.
This mission also marked the 100th successful flight of a Falcon rocket since Falcon 1 first flew to orbit in 2008.
The addition of these two satellites to the BlackSky constellation aims to bring higher resolution and increased revisits for key customer markets around the...
Due to the proximity to Earth, huge constellations are required to maintain coverage in LEO, so congestion is predictably going to get much worse, says Pascal...
With a launch planned in 2027, the satellites will carry an advanced multi-frequency altimeter that will measure sea ice thickness and ice sheet elevations.
Arianespace will launch the Galaxy 35 and Galaxy 36 satellites together as a stacked pair in 2022, and Galaxy 37 in 2023.
