🚀 Exciting news from our Countdown to Optimus Launch Campaign! 🚀 After an incredible 20,000+ km journey, Optimus 🛰️ has landed in California!!
Iridium Satellite LLC (“Iridium”) hereby requests an experimental license for a period of eighteen (18) months, beginning on or before February 29, 2024, to transmit from its space stations to the CubeSat Based Laser Crosslink Experiment (“CBASLCE”) in the 1618.725–1626.5 MHz band.1Iridium’s request is made to support the CBAS-LCE cubesat project developed by the Naval Information Warfare Center (“NIWC”) Pacific and sponsored by the Missile Defense Agency (“MDA”). The main project experiment will utilize two SUPERNOVA 6U cubesats, each equipped with an optical laser payload to demonstrate a peer-to-peer optical laser communication in space and evaluate space-to-Earth network protocols.2 Each cubesat will have a Tracking, Telemetry, and Command (TT&C) payload consisting of: (1) an Iridium model 9603N modem that will have continuous capability to communicate with space stations in Iridium’s “Big LEO” constellation; and (2) a UHF/S-band transceiver that will communicate once per day during passes over an earth station in San Diego.The CBAS-LCE is currently scheduled to launch on March 1, 2024 and operate over the following 12 months. Iridium requests authority to cover 18 months to account for the possibility of launch delays.
Our long-standing customer @Open_Cosmos 🇬🇧 joined our team in Berlin to integrate the AEROS & IOD6 satellites into deployers prior to their upcoming launch on @SpaceX's Transporter-10 mission!We look forward to a successful launch on Falcon 9!
Fantastic to see the completed @Open_Cosmos IOD-6 Hammer CubeSat. The EO satellite has passed the vibration campaign and will now be integrated into the satellite dispenser at @exolaunch in Berlin. Next year it will be launched from a Transporter 10 rideshare with @spacex 🚀🛰️
IOD6, which will use hyperspectral imagery to survey Atlantic coastal and maritime areas.
The FCC has also authorized the operation of YAM-6, whichis scheduled to launch on March 1, 2024.
🚀 The @satlantis_ & Exolaunch teams have integrated their satellite into its deployer prior to launch on @SpaceX!🛰️ HORACIO will perform methane measurements with high spatial-temporal resolution & geolocation of source emitters, to be used for monitoring emissions.
Ball Aerospace Ships Methane Monitoring Satellite for LaunchFebruary 07, 2024Ball Aerospace successfully delivered the MethaneSAT satellite to Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County, California this week, where it is scheduled to launch next month. The mission was developed in partnership with MethaneSAT, LLC, part of the nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), and it will provide groundbreaking data on the scale and sources of global methane emissions. [...]
Transporter-10 update: We've integrated @Uni_WUE's satellite into our deployer, and we're excited for launch on @SpaceX!🛰️ SONATE-2 will evaluate innovative AI hardware & software tech in Earth's proximity. Cheers to a successful integration, we can't wait to launch together!
🚀 Mission progress: SATORO Space's successful satellite integration with our EXOpod Nova deployer is complete!🛰️ The IRIS-F1 payload is a scientific in-orbit verification mission with an AIS system. The IRIS-F1 satellite is developed in partnership with @NCKU_official.
RBC Signals, LLC (“RBC Signals”), pursuant to Section 25.115 of the Commission’s rules, 47 C.F.R. §25.115, respectfully seeks a 14 day STA to operate a fixed 3.14 meter yagi UHF antenna earth station in Deadhorse,Alaska to conduct telemetry, tracking, and command (“TT&C”) operations in portions of the 402-403 MHz (Earth-tospace) and 400-402 MHz (space-to-Earth) bands with non-geostationary orbit (“NGSO”) satellites. This authorizationwould allow RBC Signals to assist Apex Space with ground station services for state of health, post launch supportmission for no longer than 2 weeks. Specifically, RBC Signals seeks to add as authorized satellite points ofcommunication the U.S.-licensed Apex Aries 1 Systems using the frequencies indicated in the attached FCC STAApplication and summarized in Table 1 below. This STA request is being filed while the ITU completes its commentand review period of operation of these systems out of Sweden and South Africa. RBC Signals would like to start thistemporary authorization upon the launch and deployment of the Aries Systems on Space X’s Transport-10 Launch.Currently this launch is scheduled for March 1st 2024.
🚀 Transporter-10 update: Exolaunch and our UK-based customer @OrbAstro have successfully completed integration of the OrbAstro-TR2 satellite with our EXOpod Nova deployer prior to shipping to @SLDelta30!
What are the Meson/Gluon spacecraft?...
MethaneSAT is a really interesting precedent... basically an Earth science mission done by a private NGO, outside the usual governmental funding structure.
Confirmed targeting "Transporter-10 launch in January 2024." See footnote 1 on page 6 in the latest Technical Narrative submitted yesterday [24 March 2023].
Hearing from a source that SpaceX is now targeting March 4 for the launch of Transporter-10
Excited to announce the arrival of the Space Machines Company Launch Team at Vandenberg Space Force Base, marking the commencement of integration activities in preparation for the Transporter-10 mission. Stay tuned as we navigate the final stages of preparation for launch.