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Derived from SNC’s SN-100 bus, the OG2 satellites are spaced within three separate drift orbit planes and the OG2 satellite fleet is now processing more than 60 percent of ORBCOMM’s M2M traffic.
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To the best of each organization’s knowledge, this is the first time in history that one satellite has autonomously commanded another to execute propulsive maneuvers, with no operator in the loop.
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Addvalue’s IDRS is an innovative new service that addresses a long standing constraint confronting the operation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites.
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The company’s on orbit service spacecraft will rendezvous and dock with the customer’s GEO communication satellite to perform station-keeping...
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Leveraging the momentum from the HoPS IDIQ announced in 2014, industry and government alike anticipated increased activity in the area of hosted payloads for 2015. Yet, here we find ourselves in December without a tangible procurement activity pointing to the success of the contracting vehicle.
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This is the company’s fourth successful berthing with the orbiting laboratory, and the third under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract.
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Robotic spacecraft—likely operated with joysticks by technicians on the ground—would carry out the hands-on maneuvers.
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Airbus Defence and Space owns and operates the hardened Skynet X-band satellite constellation of eight satellites and the ground network to provide all Beyond Line Of Sight (BLOS) communications to the UK Ministry of Defence.
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..."to demonstrate our advanced robotics capabilities with a mission that has the potential to transform the way satellites are built.”
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“The Dragonfly program gives SSL the opportunity to demonstrate our advanced robotics capabilities."—John Celli, President, SSL.
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