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The final Iridium NEXT launch took place on January 11, 2019, less than two years after the first launch. [26] The Iridium NEXT network covers the entire Earth, including poles, oceans and airways, with 66 satellites, with the remaining nine acting as active backups, for a total of 75 launched. [3]
The Iridium system was designed to be accessed by small handheld phones, the size of a cell phone. While "the weight of a typical cell phone in the early 1990s was 10.5 ounces" [6] (300 grams) Advertising Age wrote in mid 1999 that "when its phone debuted, weighing 1 pound (453 grams) and costing $3,000, it was viewed as both unwieldly and expensive."
First launch of NASA and NOAA joint science mission under the NLS II launch contract, last flight of Falcon 9 v1.1 2017-01-14 17:54 F9 FT B1029.1: Polar orbit: Iridium-1: Success First batch of ten satellites for the Iridium NEXT constellation. 2017-06-25 20:25 F9 FT B1036.1: Polar orbit: Iridium-2: Success Second batch of ten Iridium NEXT ...
Iridium Communications Inc. (IRDM) has managed to build something akin to this sort of temporary monopoly , thanks to its unique position in the private Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite internet ...
Iridium NEXT 182 [174] Iridium: Low Earth: Communications A spare Iridium NEXT satellite to be launched on-demand. [171] Relativity was previously contracted to launch up to six spare satellites for Iridium. [172] 2026 (TBD) [168] [175] Terran R: Cape Canaveral LC-16: Relativity Space: OneWeb × ? OneWeb: Low Earth: Communications
Maiden flight of Space Pioneer's Tianlong-2 launch vehicle. First successful launch of a Chinese privately funded, liquid fueled kerolox rocket. Space Pioneer became the first private company to successfully launch a liquid fueled rocket to orbit on its first attempt. 2 April 14:29 [99] Falcon 9 Block 5: F9-215 Vandenberg SLC-4E: SpaceX
Maiden flight of ISRO's Next Generation Launch Vehicle (NGLV), codenamed Soorya. 2031–2032 (TBD) [41] TBA: TBA: TBA: DAVINCI: NASA: Cytherocentric: Venus atmospheric probe NASA Discovery Program mission to Venus. 2031 (TBD) [42] Commercial launch vehicle Cape Canaveral or Kennedy: TBA: Sample Retrieval Lander: NASA / ESA: TMI to Martian ...
Relativity's advertised launch price was US$12 million per Terran 1 mission in June 2020. [28] Relativity conducted the first launch of Terran 1 on March 23, 2023 (UTC) after three scrubbed launch attempts. [29] Soon after launch, an anomaly occurred with the upper stage engine which prevented the rocket from achieving orbit.