by Matt Wilson | Jan 7, 2020 | China, Constellation, Launches, Military space, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
Two launches occurred on 7 January 2020, signalling the start of a new year of launches. The first launch was early in the day and lifted-off from Cape Canaveral, United States of America, at 0219 GMT. The second mission took place from the Xichang Satellite Launch...
by Matt Wilson | Nov 14, 2019 | Constellation, Finance, Seradata News
LeoSat Enterprises, a new space company based in the USA, has reportedly had to suspend operations after failing to raise enough interest in its US$50 million Series A round of funding. LeoSat was planning to launch a 100-strong constellation of interconnected,...
by Matt Wilson | Nov 6, 2019 | China, Constellation, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
At 1743 GMT, on 4 November 2019, a Long March 3B/G2 (CZ-3B/G2) rocket lifted-off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center, Southern China, carrying the BEIDOU-3 IGSO-3 satellite into orbit. This IGSO unit will travel to a Geosynchronous orbit, inclined at the...
by Matt Wilson | Sep 24, 2019 | Constellation, Satellites, Seradata News
Eutelsat, the European geostationary satellite operator and member of the global FSS “Big Four”, has placed orders for four nanosatellites. These would join the planned Low Earth Orbit (LEO), Internet of Things (IoT) constellation called ELO. The orders have been...
by David Todd | Dec 18, 2018 | Constellation, Satellites, Seradata News
Start-up satellite constellation operator OneWeb has announced that it is reducing the size of its planned satellite constellation in low Earth orbit (LEO) by one third from 900 to 600 satellites. This reduction, and the potential cost saving, was made possible after...
by Matt Wilson | Nov 28, 2018 | Constellation, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX, Technology
During November, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the applications of four large-scale communications satellite constellations in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), which will total more than 8,000 satellites if fully implemented. Of these, the SpaceX...
