Israeli launch schedule

[Steven Pietrobon]

From link above. Launch of Dror 1 in July.

... launch of the Dror satellite this July. yes is considering using the new Israeli communications satellite "Dror 1" ... expected to be launched this July by Israel Aerospace Industries.

Satellite mass is about 700 kg.

https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/dror-1.htm

[GewoonLukas_]

From link above. Launch of Dror 1 in July.

... launch of the Dror satellite this July. yes is considering using the new Israeli communications satellite "Dror 1" ... expected to be launched this July by Israel Aerospace Industries.

Satellite mass is about 700 kg.

https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/dror-1.htm

Note that IAI executives said the satellite would weigh 4,000kg when they got the contract in 2020:

An insider’s look at Israel’s next satellite: A ‘smartphone in space’
Nov. 25, 2020

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The four-ton satellite will take a number of years to complete, and Sudri (Shlomi Sudri, general manager of IAI’s Space Division) said the project is on time

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I think Gunter thinks this is using IAI's new MCS (Mini Communications Satellite) platform, which is developed using "capabilities developed initially for Dror 1", but there was never any confirmation of that actually being the case:

IAI Unveils New Communication Satellite Capabilities
Oct 25, 2021

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This MCS is an advanced communication satellite weighing roughly 700 kg upon its launch

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The MCS was developed based on over thirty years of IAI's experience with various satellites and on the capabilities developed initially for Dror 1

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[Skyrocket]

From link above. Launch of Dror 1 in July.

... launch of the Dror satellite this July. yes is considering using the new Israeli communications satellite "Dror 1" ... expected to be launched this July by Israel Aerospace Industries.

Satellite mass is about 700 kg.

https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/dror-1.htm

Note that IAI executives said the satellite would weigh 4,000kg when they got the contract in 2020:

An insider’s look at Israel’s next satellite: A ‘smartphone in space’
Nov. 25, 2020

[...]

The four-ton satellite will take a number of years to complete, and Sudri (Shlomi Sudri, general manager of IAI’s Space Division) said the project is on time

[...]

I think Gunter thinks this is using IAI's new MCS (Mini Communications Satellite) platform, which is developed using "capabilities developed initially for Dror 1", but there was never any confirmation of that actually being the case:

I think, I got something wrong at the time. Rereading the the press releases seem to imply, that technologies developed for Dror-1 are enablers for the MCS bus, but not that Dror-1 is based on MCS.

So likely Dror-1 is indeed still a AMOS-HP based satellite with a launch mass of ~4000 kg.

[StraumliBlight]

Both SES-STA-INTR2025-02191 and SES-STA-INTR2025-02192 have been deleted, which might mean Dror-1's launch is delayed or it was meant to be secret.