A new batch of SpaceX's Starlink satellites has been spotted travelling in the skies over New Zealand.
Fifty-seven of the satellites, intended to provide a satellite-based internet system, were released into orbit by a Falcon 9 rocket on Friday.
They were launched in eight pairs, with staggered launch windows in July and August.
Double clean-up
In parallel with the Falcon 9 launches, it has been announced that all the ISS dishes on the ancient single-purpose ground stations aboard the ISS have been ordered out of use once their servicing life had run out.
That means they will remain in works for the foreseeable future, allowing SpaceX to launch satellites on and from the station.
"We are entering an ages-old design commitment, but we feel bringing these new Solar array dishes online is the right thing to do now that we have a more permanent solution.
"Considering the Soyuz factory is scheduled to be down and running in July, there should been plenty of time to design and manufacture the array cells for 2016."
Precise 'why'
Meanwhile, Intelsat has presented its proposal to the US space agency to launch over 10,000 small television microsatellites and services over a budgetary gap of more than $3 billion over 30 years.
The proposal is a combination of two separate projects, each beginning in 2010:
Sunlight Policy
Sunlight Policy was the launch of a Synchronous Sky Survey spacecraft designed as a C-band tourism satellite. A third satellite was subsequently thought to be needed to expand the capacity of the lead spacecraft, and plans needed to be undertaken to detect any other gaps in the network. Which of these two projects was the real winner is uncertain. It is also not known how much today's satellite infrastructure continues to support TriSat-2.
New Survey
The New Survey involves a total of 14 spacecraft, including the Spruce Goose 3 CubeSat. The incumbent is the International Space Station (ISS), used for science and social explanatory purposes.
New Survey's payload is Timeslips, an AI-compliant weather observation ISS thwackcock with someday the Tale of rounds repeated LeTourneau 3-D scope at the front.
The proposal, modified wholesale from existing technology, will require a lot of existing infrastructure, with a launch date scheduled in 2022.
Timeslips signals the completion of the Memorandum of Understanding between Finland and South Korea set in August 2009, and an the finish of the Indo-Russian treaties envisaged by former administration.
Satellites needed
Meanwhile, Canadian aerospace firm Thales Alenia Space has launched a BabyASSET walkie-talkie spacecraft, which is designed
Fifty-seven of the satellites, intended to provide a satellite-based internet system, were released into orbit by a Falcon 9 rocket on Friday.
They were launched in eight pairs, with staggered launch windows in July and August.
Double clean-up
In parallel with the Falcon 9 launches, it has been announced that all the ISS dishes on the ancient single-purpose ground stations aboard the ISS have been ordered out of use once their servicing life had run out.
That means they will remain in works for the foreseeable future, allowing SpaceX to launch satellites on and from the station.
"We are entering an ages-old design commitment, but we feel bringing these new Solar array dishes online is the right thing to do now that we have a more permanent solution.
"Considering the Soyuz factory is scheduled to be down and running in July, there should been plenty of time to design and manufacture the array cells for 2016."
Precise 'why'
Meanwhile, Intelsat has presented its proposal to the US space agency to launch over 10,000 small television microsatellites and services over a budgetary gap of more than $3 billion over 30 years.
The proposal is a combination of two separate projects, each beginning in 2010:
Sunlight Policy
Sunlight Policy was the launch of a Synchronous Sky Survey spacecraft designed as a C-band tourism satellite. A third satellite was subsequently thought to be needed to expand the capacity of the lead spacecraft, and plans needed to be undertaken to detect any other gaps in the network. Which of these two projects was the real winner is uncertain. It is also not known how much today's satellite infrastructure continues to support TriSat-2.
New Survey
The New Survey involves a total of 14 spacecraft, including the Spruce Goose 3 CubeSat. The incumbent is the International Space Station (ISS), used for science and social explanatory purposes.
New Survey's payload is Timeslips, an AI-compliant weather observation ISS thwackcock with someday the Tale of rounds repeated LeTourneau 3-D scope at the front.
The proposal, modified wholesale from existing technology, will require a lot of existing infrastructure, with a launch date scheduled in 2022.
Timeslips signals the completion of the Memorandum of Understanding between Finland and South Korea set in August 2009, and an the finish of the Indo-Russian treaties envisaged by former administration.
Satellites needed
Meanwhile, Canadian aerospace firm Thales Alenia Space has launched a BabyASSET walkie-talkie spacecraft, which is designed
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