The coming week will also see the continued growth of several satellite constellations and the winners of NASA's Deep Space Food Challenge.
British company OneWeb plans to add 16 new internet satellites to its constellation as early as the morning of Friday, May 20. A Falcon 9 rocket will perform the lifting duties, launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. According to
kept by Harvard-Smithsonian astronomer Jonathan McDowell, OneWeb’s constellation currently consists of 616 active units.The company has plans to grow the constellation to 6,372 units, a phase that appears set to begin. Of this batch, one is a test unit called JoeySat, which OneWeb will use to test its next-gen internet satellite. This rideshare launch to low Earth orbit includes five
Iridium communications satellites meant to replenish the U.S. company’s constellation, which consists of 66 active units.On Sunday at 11:20 p.m. ET, a Falcon 9 will attempt to deliver Arabsat 7B to geostationary orbit . The Airbus-built communications satellite will increase the capacity of Arabsat’s network
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