NorthStar's Skylark constellation services are designed to revolutionise the safety of spaceflight.
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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.
According to the FCC order, OneWeb must launch and operate 50% of the maximum number of proposed space stations, or 1,000 satellites, by August 26, 2026.
Boeing is currently building the first seven O3b mPower satellites for SES, the first set of which will be launched in late 2021.
The new satellites are designed to provide digital broadcasting services over North America.
The launch would bring SpaceX's Starlink constellation to very nearly 600 total in low-Earth orbit.