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Illustration of the WGS satellites in its two configurations, known as Block I (left) and Block II (right) The Wideband Global SATCOM system (WGS) is a high capacity United States Space Force satellite communications system planned for use in partnership by the United States Department of Defense (DoD), Canadian Department of National Defence (DND) and the Australian Department of Defence. [1]
2023-050 2 April 2023 14:29 Vandenberg, SLC-4E: 951 km (591 mi) [39] 80.99° [39] 2 [40] 2 Success Space Development Agency: Likely operational Starshield satellites. Hosts infrared payloads manufactured by Leidos. Launched with 8 York Space Systems-built Transport layer satellites on this mission. [41] [42] 4 Tracking Layer (Tranche 0B) v1.5 ...
The Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) is a NASA mission that will test laser communication in space for extremely long distances, [1] between Earth and geosynchronous orbit. After being integrated into STPSat-6 , a part of STP-3 , LCRD launched on 7 December 2021 on an Atlas V 551.
Four experimental satellites SpaceBEE, built to the 0.25U CubeSat are to demonstrate two-way satellite communications and data relay for Swarm Technologies Inc. [26] 2 SpaceBEE 5–7 2018–099 3 December 2018, 18:34:05 [27] Vandenberg, SLC-4E: Falcon 9 B5: 580 km (360 mi) 97.8° 3 1 Success Three experimental satellites SpaceBEE. [26] 3 ...
In November 2023, Globalsat Group partnered with Rivada to introduce Rivada's OuterNET™ in Latin America, leveraging a 600-satellite LEO constellation for an ultra-secure, low-latency network. This partnership aims to enhance connectivity in remote areas, with satellite-to-satellite laser links for resilient communication.
As of May 2023, EDRS has over one million minutes of communications [24] with more than 50,000 successful inter-satellite links. [ 25 ] [ 26 ] In December 2014, NASA's Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science (OPALS) announced a breakthrough in space-to-ground laser communication, downloading at a speed of 400 megabits per second.
Skynet 5A was launched by an Ariane 5 launch vehicle at 22:03 UTC on 11 March 2007, in a launch shared with the Indian INSAT 4B civil communications satellite, and entered full service on 10 May 2007. [51] The launch was delayed from 10 March 2007 due to malfunction of a launch pad deluge system. [52]
In April 2019, Amazon announced that they would fund and deploy a large broadband satellite internet constellation called Project Kuiper. [2] [3] It is expected to take up to a decade to fully deploy all 3,236 satellites planned for the full constellation in order to provide internet to "tens of millions of people who lack basic access to broadband internet". [2]