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The rocket carried a total of 26 satellites, of which 20 remain currently undisclosed, setting a new record for Chinese launch vehicles. Despite the lack of an explicit acknowledgment, Chang Guang Satellite Technology 's claim to have launched 68 satellites in the first half of the year would leave a 21 satellites gap closely matching the ...
The Iridium NEXT IV mission launched with ten satellites on December 23, 2017. The fifth mission, Iridium NEXT V, launched with ten satellites on March 30, 2018. The sixth launch on May 22, 2018, sent another 5 satellites into LEO. [41] The penultimate Iridium NEXT launch occurred on July 25, 2018, launching another 10 Iridium NEXT satellites. [42]
First satellite of the Next-Generation Overhead Persistent InfraRed (NG-OPIR) constellation, follow-up of SBIRS. December (TBD) [59] [60] TBA: TBA: TBA: CAS500-5 KARI / Ministry of Science and ICT / Ministry of Environment: Low Earth Earth observation Fifth CAS500 satellite, dedicated to observation of water resources. [5] Q4 (TBD) [8] [61 ...
Iridium NEXT 182 [152] Iridium: Low Earth: Communications A spare Iridium NEXT satellite to be launched on-demand. [149] Relativity was previously contracted to launch up to six spare satellites for Iridium. [150] 2026 (TBD) [146] [153] Terran R: Cape Canaveral LC-16: Relativity Space: OneWeb × ? OneWeb: Low Earth: Communications
When the 66 Iridium Next satellites are already in orbit, air traffic controllers and pilots will be able to track all flights, even planes flying across ocean. That's because the satellites are ...
[49] [50] On January 14, 2017, SpaceX launched 10 of the new Iridium satellites into orbit. [51] The second launch of Iridium NEXT satellites took place on June 25, 2017 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket out of Vandenberg Air Force Base. This was the second of eight scheduled launches. [52] The third launch of 10 NEXT satellites took place on October ...
Sentinel-3 Next Generation Optical satellite. H1 2035 [48] Ariane 6: Kourou ELA-4: Arianespace: MTG-S2 / Sentinel-4B: EUMETSAT: Geosynchronous: Meteorology / Earth observation Q3 2035 [2] TBA: TBA: TBA: Sentinel-3 NG TOPO B ESA: Low Earth Earth observation Sentinel-3 Next Generation Topography satellite. 2035 (TBD) [51] Ariane 64 [52] Kourou ...
SpaceX had to cut off the Iridium Next mission's live feed early, and it might be because its Tesla launch got a bit too much attention. The private space giant raised questions (and may have ...