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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · last month

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#Amazon is under time pressure ⏱️. The license issued by the US regulatory authorities for the operation of #satellite internet in 2020 requires half of the satellite network to be completed by 📆 July 2026. The rest must be in orbit by July 2029 ⏳. More than 30 additional launches are planned with other companies, such as #Arianespace and #BlueOrigin. Even the competitor #SpaceX is helping out https://www.heise.de/en/news/Amazon-launches-the-first-internet-satellites-for-Project-Kuiper-next-week-10338214.html

#Kuiper #ULA #Ariane6 #NewGlenn #Falcon9

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · last week

#Amazon said it had established communications with all of the satellites, and the sequence of turning them on was “proceeding as planned.” The #FCC’s approval of the constellation came with a requirement that at least half 📊 the #satellites needed to be deployed by 📆 July 30, 2026. Industry analysts say the company could get an extension if it has demonstrated substantial progress by then https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/science/amazon-kuiper-launch-ula.html

#ULA #Atlas #Kuiper

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · last week

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At the end of March, #Starlink consisted of more than 7100 satellites 🛰️. Over five million people worldwide use the system. #Amazon launched two test satellites into space in 📆 2023. The plan was to launch the first regular satellites into space in the first half of 📆 2024. #ULA is set to complete up to five more #satellite transports for the company this year https://www.heise.de/en/news/Amazon-launches-first-Kuiper-satellites-into-space-10366771.html

Daniel Pomarède @pomarede@mastodon.social · 3 months ago

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A Dragonfly for Titan

A new eight-rotor robotic probe will head to the solar system’s most Earth-like moon. Here’s what its team is doing to prepare.

Check out this extensive paper by Matthew R. Francis for Eos, AGU's science news magazine

https://eos.org/features/a-dragonfly-for-titan

#Dragonfly #Titan #Saturn #Moon #satellite #solarsystem #planetaryscience #science #STEM #engineering #drone #AGU #Eos #news #magazine