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SpaceX successfully launched four Astranis-built broadband spacecraft toward geostationary orbit Dec. 29, marking the first time a single commercial manufacturer has flown four of its own satellites on one mission to GEO.

The four Block 2 satellites completed initial commissioning and have started to use their electric propulsion systems to move from their initial transfer orbits to GEO. The company, which is operating the spacecraft on behalf of customers that have leased their broadband capacity, expects to bring Block 2 services online by the middle of the year. https://lnkd.in/eWgkZiWf

New Post: SES’s Seventh and Eighth O3b mPOWER Satellites Successfully Launched, Bolstering MEO Constellation - https://lnkd.in/d95zByqz announced today that its latest pair of O3b mPOWER satellites was successfully launched into space by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United States, at 5:26 pm local time. Both satellites will join the first six O3b mPOWER spacecraft already in operation at medium Earth orbit (MEO), adding incremental …

Four Astranis Space Technologies GEO satellites pass initial commissioning milestone : Astranis said all four of its recently launched broadband satellites have passed early tests and begun using electric propulsion to reach geostationary orbit. The post Four Astranis GEO satellites pass initial commissioning milestone  appeared first on SpaceNews. #neuco

[SpaceX Launching 30 Satellites On Bandwagon-2 Rideshare Mission Early Dec. 21] SpaceX plans to launch 30 satellites to orbit early Saturday morning (Dec. 21). A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base on Saturday at 6:34 a.m. EDT (1134 GMT; 3:34 a.m. local California time), kicking off a rideshare mission SpaceX calls Bandwagon-2. The company will webcast the action live via its X account beginning about 15 minutes before launch. Thirty satellites are going up on Bandwagon-2, including payloads for South Korea's Agency for Defense Development as well as "Arrow Science and Technology, Exolaunch, HawkEye 360, Maverick Space Systems, Sidus Space, Tomorrow Companies Inc., True Anomaly and Think Orbital," SpaceX wrote in a mission description. SpaceX has launched one Bandwagon mission already Bandwagon-1, which sent up 11 satellites this past April. The company also launches other rideshare missions with a series it calls "Transporter." SpaceX has launched 11 Transporter missions to date. The first one, which flew in January 2021, lofted 143 satellites to orbit, a single-launch record that still stands. If all goes according to plan on Saturday, the Falcon 9's first stage will return to Earth about eight minutes after launch, landing vertically back at Vandenberg. It will be the 21st flight for this particular booster, according to the SpaceX mission description. That's just three away from the company's rocket-reuse record. The Bandwagon-2 mission description does not give a timeline for the deployment of the 30 satellites. Source: https://lnkd.in/ecmUW2W7 #galaxyaerosgh #space #spaceexploration #SpaceNews

India's Pixxel is set to launch three of its six hyperspectral imaging satellites aboard a SpaceX rocket from California on Tuesday, the first such network in the country's nascent private space sector, Pixxel's chief told Reuters. The satellites will be placed in a sun-synchronous orbit at roughly 550 km, with the remaining three slated for deployment in the second quarter of the year. Pixxel's founder and chief executive Awais Ahmed told Reuters that it plans to add 18 more spacecraft to the six it has already developed, eyeing a share of the satellite imaging market projected to reach $19 billion by 2029. Read more: thekarostartup.com #PixxelSatellites #HyperspectralImaging #IndianSpaceSector #PrivateSpaceIndustry #SpaceX #SatelliteLaunch #SunSynchronousOrbit #SpaceTechnology #IndiaInSpace

OTVs are going to usher in the next phase of the Space Revolution... cheaper and more numerous satellites in GEO and more manufacturing in orbit. https://lnkd.in/dpc89jBP

[SpaceX Launches 30 Satellites On Bandwagon-2 Rideshare Mission] SpaceX launched 30 satellites to orbit early Saturday morning (Dec. 21). A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base on Saturday at 6:34 a.m. EDT (1134 GMT; 3:34 a.m. local California time), kicking off a rideshare mission SpaceX calls Bandwagon-2. Thirty satellites went up on Bandwagon-2, including payloads for South Korea's Agency for Defense Development as well as "Arrow Science and Technology, Exolaunch, HawkEye 360, Maverick Space Systems, Sidus Space, Tomorrow Companies Inc., True Anomaly and Think Orbital," SpaceX wrote in a mission description. SpaceX has launched one Bandwagon mission already Bandwagon-1, which sent up 11 satellites this past April. The company also launches other rideshare missions with a series it calls "Transporter." SpaceX has launched 11 Transporter missions to date. The first one, which flew in January 2021, lofted 143 satellites to orbit, a single-launch record that still stands. As to plan on Saturday, the Falcon 9's first stage returned to Earth about eight minutes after launch, landing vertically back at Vandenberg. It was the 21st flight for this particular booster, according to the SpaceX mission description. That's just three away from the company's rocket-reuse record. SpaceX did not give a timeline for the deployment of the 30 satellites. Source: https://lnkd.in/ecmUW2W7 #galaxyaerosgh #space #spaceexploration #SpaceNews

ICEYE Expands its Earth Observation Capabilities with Launch of Two SAR Satellites for Mid-inclination Orbit on the Bandwagon-2 Mission with SpaceX