- A
communications satellite is an
artificial satellite that
relays and
amplifies radio telecommunication signals via a transponder; it
creates a communication...
- two
commsats of this
design were
lofted in a
paired launch in
March 2015, for a
record low
launch price of
approximately US$30
million per GSO
commsat. Boeing...
-
early 2015. This was to be Boeing's
first conjoined launch of two
commsats. The two
commsats were
launched aboard a
SpaceX rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida...
- The
launch was Boeing's
first conjoined launch of a lighter-weight dual-
commsat stack that was
specifically designed to take
advantage of the lower-cost...
- re-usability for a
larger range of missions,
including delivery of
large commsats to
geosynchronous orbit. Like
earlier versions of the
Falcon 9, and like...
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satellite internet services have been
available through geosynchronous commsats orbiting in
geostationary orbit for years,
these have been of
quite limited...
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providers of
GMDSS satellite services: Inmarsat, with
several of
their commsats in
equatorial geosynchronous orbit, and
Iridium Communications, with their...
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SpaceX prices are
undercutting the
major competitors in the
commercial commsat launch market—the
Ariane 5 and Proton-M—at
which time
SpaceX had at least...
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supersynchronous orbits are for the
launch and
transfer orbit trajectory of new
commsats intended for
geosynchronous orbits. In this approach, the
launch vehicle...
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during this period, for both commercial- and government-entity-launched
commsats, the
launch service providers for
these payloads used
launch vehicles built...
