My bold; Transporter-12? => H1 2025 Falcon 9 rideshare:Quote from: Galactic Penguin SST on 12/09/2024 06:21 amNAOS launch now planned for first half of 2025: https://luxtoday.lu/en/world-en/spacex-will-launch-a-satellite-for-luxembourg [Dec 2]QuoteLuxembourg has chosen SpaceX as a partner for a satellite launch planned for the first half of 2025. Alternatives offered by a NATO member state were not economically viable and did not guarantee reliable logistics. SpaceX was the obvious choice due to its combination of affordable cost and impeccable reputation in commercial launches. The decision was confirmed during a presentation to the Parliament's Defence and Budget Committees on 5 February 2024.MBZsat would be the cake-topper of this mission's payload dispenser.Quote from: gongora on 09/18/2024 01:16 amMy question is whether NAOS is a cake topper payload, and if so wouldn't it need to be on a different flight than MBZ-SAT?
NAOS launch now planned for first half of 2025: https://luxtoday.lu/en/world-en/spacex-will-launch-a-satellite-for-luxembourg [Dec 2]QuoteLuxembourg has chosen SpaceX as a partner for a satellite launch planned for the first half of 2025. Alternatives offered by a NATO member state were not economically viable and did not guarantee reliable logistics. SpaceX was the obvious choice due to its combination of affordable cost and impeccable reputation in commercial launches. The decision was confirmed during a presentation to the Parliament's Defence and Budget Committees on 5 February 2024.
Luxembourg has chosen SpaceX as a partner for a satellite launch planned for the first half of 2025. Alternatives offered by a NATO member state were not economically viable and did not guarantee reliable logistics. SpaceX was the obvious choice due to its combination of affordable cost and impeccable reputation in commercial launches. The decision was confirmed during a presentation to the Parliament's Defence and Budget Committees on 5 February 2024.
My question is whether NAOS is a cake topper payload, and if so wouldn't it need to be on a different flight than MBZ-SAT?
Quote from: zubenelgenubi on 09/15/2024 06:23 pmMight NAOS (LUXEOSys) launch aboard Transporter-12?(Launch NET October/NLT January to SSO, 645 kg)Or, is it more likely to launch solo?Seeing as its launch cost is 12.1 million euros, its almost certainly a rideshare.QuoteSurcoût relatif au lancement sur SpaceX : 12,1 millions d’euros (à charge du Luxembourg)
Might NAOS (LUXEOSys) launch aboard Transporter-12?(Launch NET October/NLT January to SSO, 645 kg)Or, is it more likely to launch solo?
Surcoût relatif au lancement sur SpaceX : 12,1 millions d’euros (à charge du Luxembourg)
We are thrilled to announce our upcoming mission aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 Transporter-14, scheduled for launch in June 2025! This mission represents another significant step in our journey to inspire and support those affected by cancer, offering them a unique way to share their dreams among the stars.Working alongside our valued partner Care Weather Technologies, this satellite mission will carry forward our commitment to connecting dreams with the infinite possibilities of space. We're especially grateful for their continued support in making these missions possible.
The A Billion Dreams plaque is attached to a satellite that will orbit Earth for 5-10 years, carrying these aspirations among the stars.
The satellite will be launched aboard SpaceX Transporter 14, NET June 1, 2025, from Vandenberg Air Force Base. It will be inserted into a circular Sun synch orbit at 510 km altitude, on an inclination from the equator of 97.4 degrees. Atmospheric friction will slow the satellite and reduce the altitude of the orbit, until de-orbiting occurs about 5 years after launch.[...]The spacecraft is a single unit (1U) CubeSat with the dimensions of 10x10x10cm. The total mass is about 2 kg
The mission is a continuation of the HORIS-1 mission which expects to launch in Q1 2025. The primary mission objective is the collection of orbital training data for AI model development. An Iridium transceiver modem (model 9603) will communicate with the Iridium constellation. Transmission from HORIS-2 will begin 60 minutes after deployment, and cease after completion of the mission 2 years later.
Iridium Satellite LLC (“Iridium”) hereby amends its application for an experimental license to transmit in the 1618.725-1626.5 MHz band from its space stations1 to the smallsat HORIS-2, a spacecraft operated by ACME AtronOmatic LLC d/b/a MyRadar (“MyRadar”). Iridium is adding the smallsat HORIS-1 spacecraft to its license application so that the application now covers both satellites for the time period Iridium originally sought in its HORIS-2 application.As before, Iridium requests that its license application be granted for a period of two years beginning June 1, 2025 and that its license be issued by April 1, 2025, to satisfy the requirements of the launch integrators. Only now these dates apply to both spacecraft. Iridium initially requested authority to communicate with My Radar’s HORIS-1 as a companion to MyRadar’s experimental application request. Due to launch scheduling delays, the HORIS-1 mission launch has been rescheduled to coincide with the HORIS-2 launch. MyRadar has amended its HORIS-2 application to include the HORIS-1 satellite and, by this amendment, Iridium now seeks to add HORIS-1 to its companion application in a similar fashion.
SAT-AMD-20240807-00172Xona IOV (149kg wet mass)built by Aerospacelab with PNT payload
All IOV satellite parameters remain the same as previously filed except for the (1) reduction of the 2200-2290 MHz (space-to-Earth) channel size from six to five megahertz and updates of the associated antenna gain contour plots and power flux-density (“PFD”) showing;(2) confirmation that the mission lifetime is five years, not two to five years;(3) clarification of the orbital deployment altitude at 510 ± 15 km, not 550 ± 50 km; and(4) removal of the propulsion system (including associated minor surface area and mass modifications)
Xona expects to launch its first satellite in Q2 2025 onboard the SpaceX Transporter-14 mission. The satellite would have the following technical characteristics.Dry Mass: 134 kg
The GARAI satellites, GARAI-A and GARAI-B, are the next generation of satellites in SATLANTIS's strategic roadmap, aimed at establishing a unique satellite solution, providing High-Resolution, multispectral and polarimetry imagery + video products with multiple applications for the Earth Observation (EO) market.GARAI-A is scheduled for launch in October 2024, followed by GARAI-B in June 2025. Both satellites will be deployed into a sun-synchronous low Earth orbit, as part of SpaceX Transporter missions.
The launch of the second satellite is planned for later in 2025.
The UVigo SpaceLab student association continues to advance in its successful space career. While they continue working on the BIXO cubesat project, which still has no definitive launch date, they have just embarked on a new mission, CORTIS (Camera Observation & Radiation Test in Space). This initiative, in collaboration with the company UARX Space, will allow them to test and compare the results of cameras and radiation sensors that will later be implemented on the BIXO cubesat (Bacteriological Intercommunication Experiment in Orbit).CORTIS will be launched in June 2025 as a secondary payload aboard OSSIE (Orbit Solutions to Simplify Injection and Exploration), an orbital injection platform developed by the Galician company UARX Space, which will reach space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Our Orbital Transfer Vehicle, OSSIE-D, is on track to launch in June 2025 with SpaceX's Transporter 14 mission. This is just the beginning; there’s so much more to come.
The first OSSIE qualification mission, scheduled to launch in June 2025, will hold 12 customers spanning from PocketQubes, CubeSats, and hosted payloads.
🚀 OSSIE, the first Spanish Orbital Transportation and Validation Vehicle, is in its integration phase. Meticulous attention to detail defines the success of our mission, so our team employs the utmost precision in every process.
Space Norway’s ADIS-project is progressing well, and the satellite will launch in June 2025 on SpaceX Transporter.Space Norway AS is developing a microsatellite mission called the Application Development Infrastructure in Space (ADIS).“We are six months past contract signature for ADIS project, and both platform and payloads are progressing well and moving quickly towards the PDR milestone. We are confident to be ready for launch in June 2025”, says Anton Bolstad, project manager for the ADIS mission.Two payloadsThe ADIS satellite is hosting a wideband frequency agile Software Defined Radio (SDR) payload as its primary payload. In addition is a VDES (VHF Data Exchange System) payload as its secondary payload.After a competitive process OHB Sweden’s flight proven InnoSat microsatellite platform was selected to host the payloads together with supporting wideband antennas and subsystems for communication.
OHB Sweden’s responsibility in this mission includes: overall system level space segment design based on the InnoSat platform, integration and testing, launch, Mission Control Software (RAMSES) and LEOP and In-Orbit-Commissioning services.Space Norway will be the owner and operator of the ADIS satellite. The first task the satellite will embark upon is to demonstrate satellite-based Internet of Things services in the frequency range 1500-5000 MHz. These demonstrations will be conducted on behalf of the European Space Agency. The satellite is planned to be launched in 2025.
Overall system level space segment design based on the InnoSat platform, integration and testing, launch, Mission Control Software (RAMSES) and LEOP and In-Orbit-Commissioning services.
Expected Launch Date: 2025-06-01
Sun synchronous orbit at 500 km altitude, 6 months flight timeLaunch by SpaceX Falcon-9 (Transporter-14 mission), planned for 6/15/2025CubeSat deployer and LV integration by Maverick Space systems[...]from Vandenberg SFB, CA
SPRITE, Space-X rideshare with ESD, April 2025[...]SPRITE: PI Brian Fleming U CO, First APD 12U, UV spectra of ionizing radiation from star forming galaxies, Bus in house, launch 4/25, Space-X Transporter
SAT-LOA-20230824-00211 YAC-1-1 on T11, YAC-1-2 .. YAC-1-10 on T12.QuoteLoft Orbital Solutions Inc. (“Loft Orbital”) requests authority to launch and operate a constellation of 10 satellites (“YAC-1”). YAC-1 is Loft Orbital’s first customer constellation, which will be the EarthDaily Analytics Corp. (“EarthDaily”) earth observation system. Each satellite in the YAC-1 constellation includes a VNIR imager, a SWIR imager, and a Thermal/IR imager. The satellites will be phased equally around the orbital plane and provide nearly daily coverage of major Earth land masses.The constellation is expected to be launched on two SpaceX Transporter missions.The first satellite is scheduled for launch in June 2024 and the remaining satellites in October 2024.The YAC-1 spacecraft are based on the AOS Arrowbus originally developed by Airbus for the OneWeb broadband telecommunications company.Basic physical dimensions are 1200 mm x 1052 mm x 1036 mm with a mass of approximately 216 kg.Attachments are in the T11 thread.
Loft Orbital Solutions Inc. (“Loft Orbital”) requests authority to launch and operate a constellation of 10 satellites (“YAC-1”). YAC-1 is Loft Orbital’s first customer constellation, which will be the EarthDaily Analytics Corp. (“EarthDaily”) earth observation system. Each satellite in the YAC-1 constellation includes a VNIR imager, a SWIR imager, and a Thermal/IR imager. The satellites will be phased equally around the orbital plane and provide nearly daily coverage of major Earth land masses.The constellation is expected to be launched on two SpaceX Transporter missions.The first satellite is scheduled for launch in June 2024 and the remaining satellites in October 2024.The YAC-1 spacecraft are based on the AOS Arrowbus originally developed by Airbus for the OneWeb broadband telecommunications company.Basic physical dimensions are 1200 mm x 1052 mm x 1036 mm with a mass of approximately 216 kg.
...For all the above reasons and those stated in the initial application, Loft Orbital respectfully requests the FCC grant the YAC-1application, as amended, by June 2025, which is the current, earliest predicted launch window.
D-Orbit to Perform In-Orbit Validation of Pale Blue's Water-Based Propulsion SystemFino Mornasco, Italy, January 8th, 2025: D-Orbit, a market leader in the space logistics and transportation services industry, today announced the signing of a Launch Service Contract with Pale Blue Inc., a Japanese space propulsion company specializing in water-based propulsion systems suited for a wide variety of missions for spacecraft ranging from 3U CubeSats to 700 kg satellites. Under the agreement, D-Orbit will conduct an in-orbit validation mission of Pale Blue's innovative water ion thrusters using its orbital transfer vehicle (OTV), ION Satellite Carrier.The contract covers the integration of two propulsion systems on D-Orbit's OTV and includes the operations period. The missions are scheduled for launch in June and October 2025
Umbra-11 | SpaceX Transporter-14 | Q2 2025Inclination Angle: 97.4 degreesOrbital Period: 5749.0 secondsApogee/Perigee: 565.0 kmOrbit Epoch Date: 06/15/2025Wet Mass: 104.3 kgThe satellite deployment will be approximately 590 ± 20 km in altitude.The payload is approximately 0.6 m in diameter and 0.9 m in length in the stowed position.
QuoteStarfish Space is seeking authorization through OET to operate the Otterpup-2 satellite, which is scheduled for launch on a SpaceX Transporter mission in March of 2025.1See Starfish Space, Inc. OET File Number 0288-EX-CN-2024, with callsign WO2XST, Filed March 4th 2024
Starfish Space is seeking authorization through OET to operate the Otterpup-2 satellite, which is scheduled for launch on a SpaceX Transporter mission in March of 2025.1See Starfish Space, Inc. OET File Number 0288-EX-CN-2024, with callsign WO2XST, Filed March 4th 2024
The QKD system, which has been delivered to the UK for integration into the SpeQtre mission, is expected to fly on SpaceX’s transporter-14 mission next year. SpeQtre is a 12U QKD technology demonstrator satellite built by SpeQtral and RAL Space UK and will likely be the first entanglement-based QKD missions launched outside of China. It aims to demonstrate intercontinental, trusted node QKD by downlinking quantum keys to compatible Quantum-Optical Ground Stations (Q-OGS) across the world, including in Chilbolton, UK and Singapore.The mission objective is to successfully demonstrate a form of entanglement-based QKD known as the BBM92 protocol. This is achieved by using the EPPS to generate pairs of photons entangled in polarisation. One of each of the photons in each pair is routed to an optical terminal, developed by RAL Space UK, to be downlinked to the Q-OGS, while another is routed internally to the ‘Alice’ quantum receiver on board the satellite. During a satellite ground station pass the polarisation of the photons is measured both on board the satellite as well as at the ground stations . A series of post-processing steps as per the BBM92 protocol are performed on the measured data to result in a shared, unique bit-string which can be used as a key to encrypt data communications.
Size: 12UQuantum Payload: Entangled photon source and single downlinkTelescope Aperture: 8cm
RAL Space has several roles in the SPEQTRE project, including design and development of the optical payload used for maximising transmission of the quantum beam, as well as initial operations of the satellite and development of an optical ground station for receiving keys.The satellite is now in the assembly, integration, and testing phase, with the engineering model having just been tested using RAL Space thermal vacuum and vibration facilities. The project has taken an agile approach to testing, tailored to achieving the mission requirements and establishing the effectiveness of this new technology quickly. This means explicitly accepting a higher level of risk of failure in exchange for reduced cost and time, in order to maintain the rapid development advantage of the CubeSat platform, which is being provided by Dutch company ISISPACE.
As 2024 draws to a close, we were joined by Ian Mardon from Cirrus Materials Science to do a fit check on a panel for the TPA-1 CubeSat making use of Cirrus Paint-free Colour™ technology. This technology generates colour from nano-pores developed on the surface of the Aluminium panel.TPA-1 is the first CubeSat mission from Te Pūnaha Ātea - Space Institute at The University of Auckland and we are looking forward to our launch next year on Transporter-14 provided by ISISPACE Group!Deployable dragsail and inspection boom payloads developed for this mission are now also commercialized via Frond Space Systems.
~525km Sun Synchronous Orbit, 4.7kg mass
3U (M3P) CubeSat platform from Nanoavionics with external dimensions of 340 x 100 x 100 mm when in the stowed configuration.
June 2025:• F9 - Transporter - 14• LTDN 13:00 + 2h / - 0h• SSO +/- 0,1 deg• 500-600km +/- 20km
developed by Planetek Italia in cooperation with its partners D-Orbit and AIKO.
Celestis payloadQuoteLaunch Date: June 2025Launch Location: Vandenberg Space Force Base, California[...]
Launch Date: June 2025Launch Location: Vandenberg Space Force Base, California[...]
What’s next for ECHOES?In the coming months, the focus will be on the launch of the IOD.1 satellite, scheduled to be launched aboard SpaceX’s Transporter 13 mission in March 2025, followed by the launch of IOD.2 on the Transporter 14 mission in July. This will enable ECHOES system to perform exercises under real-world conditions.More about the demohttps://www.sesarju.eu/projects/ECHOES
👉 Meet IOD-2: Our Second In-Orbit Demonstrator With a payload designed and developed in Spain by Indra, with ENAIRE’s support, this mission showcases the nation’s leadership in technological innovation. • Satellite platform & solar panels: Designed and manufactured by Kongsberg NanoAvionics. • Payload: Designed and developed by Indra, incorporating a large VHF antenna from Oxford Space Systems. Additional subsystems were created by teams from Indra, Alén Space, ZeniaLabs Automation Intelligence, and other subcontractors.
Startical's 3,5 meter VHF antenna recently put on a spectacular show following successful payload integration with our MP42 microsatellite bus:Startical will combine this giant helical antenna from Oxford Space Systems with radio payloads developed by Indra to test space-based Air Traffic Management communications on its IOD.2 satellite - a pathfinder for its planned 288-satellite constellation.IOD.2 will use aeronautical frequency bands to provide global voice and data communication between pilots and air traffic controllers, addressing the infrequent communications over remote regions and oceanic areas.
This is our IOD-2 at the Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial «Esteban Terradas» facilities, in the impressive room where electromagnetic compatibility tests took place.
Startical, a company backed by Indra and ENAIRE, officially unveiled its IOD-2 (In-Orbit Demonstrator-2) satellite this month, featuring SDR technology from Alén Space. The project aims to demonstrate the feasibility of a solution to optimize air traffic management from space.The satellite incorporates multiple subsystems with software-defined radio (SDR) solutions provided by Alén Space through its TREVO product, applied to VHF, ADS-B, and feeder link payloads. For ADS-B and feeder link, Alén Space was also responsible for developing the specific application. The mission engineering and satellite payload were developed by Indra, with support from ENAIRE.TREVO is a flight-proven SDR solution designed to adapt to various high-performance applications in space. Its modular and configurable capabilities facilitate integration with different systems and mission types.[...]Launch scheduled for mid-2025The IOD-2 satellite has undergone rigorous electromagnetic compatibility, vibration, and functionality tests at INTA to ensure its operational capability in orbit. Its launch is scheduled for mid-2025.
Proving critical space-based voice & data communications between pilots and air traffic controllers is no easy task. In preparation, Startical's IOD.2 satellite went through a lot in the last few weeks:— Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) testing— Vibration testing— Thermal Vacuum testing— Payload antenna & solar panel deployments and moreIn just over a year since project kick-off, IOD.2 is nearly ready for launch, with just a final round of functional testing remaining, thanks to the efficient collaboration between our customers and partners from Startical, Indra, ENAIRE, Oxford Space Systems, Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial «Esteban Terradas», and others.Soon, IOD.2 will head out for its mid-year launch as a pathfinder for Startical's planned 288-satellite air traffic management and ADS-B surveillance constellation.Our standard MP42 microsatellite bus continues to set the standard as an effective platform for demanding missions requiring high performance and agile program execution for commercial and governmental customers in communication, Earth observation, and remote sensing.
