Kepler Communications is a satellite telecommunications provider based in Toronto, Canada, with a mission to deliver Internet connectivity to space. The company is building the Kepler Network, an optical data relay constellation, to provide real-time, high-bandwidth data transfer and on-orbit computing services for space-based assets. Kepler's customers include Axiom Space, NASA, and the Space Development Agency (SDA), and it is working towards providing connectivity services in LEO, MEO, GEO, and beyond, using optical inter-satellite links (OISLs). Associated keywords: satellite telecommunications, optical data relay, in-space communications, internet for space, LEO, MEO, GEO.
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Kepler Communications contracted with SpaceX on 2019-12-11 to launch some of its cubesats on one or more Falcon 9 rideshare missions next year.
Kepler Communications is deploying its constellation at 575 km to place it slightly above Starlink and reduce collision risks and associated conjunction alerts.
Kepler Communications booked 400 kg of rideshare capacity with SpaceX on 2019-12-11.
Kepler’s SpaceX rideshare agreement combined with Kepler’s other launch agreements provides enough rides to low Earth orbit for Kepler’s Gen-1 constellation of 15 cubesats.
Kepler Communications reserved SpaceX rideshare capacity to launch an unspecified number of Internet of Things cubesats in 2020.
Kepler Communications of Toronto operates LEO cubesats that use Ku-band frequencies similar to Eutelsat IoT First.
Kepler Communications signed a launch agreement with Innovative Space Logistics B.V. (ISL) and GK Launch Services to deploy two satellites into sun-synchronous orbit in Q2–2020-07-01.
GK Launch Services will use Soyuz-2 family launch vehicles to launch Kepler’s next-generation satellites.
Kepler arranged the Soyuz launch through Innovative Space Logistics, the Dutch launch broker that arranged Kepler’s first two prototypes to launch in 2018 on a Chinese Long March 11 and an Indian PSLV.
ISL partnered with Kepler Communications for Kepler’s inaugural mission that launched Kepler’s first satellite into orbit in January 2018 and a second satellite in November 2018.
Kepler Communications plans to place approximately 140 satellites in Low Earth Orbit in three incremental phases from 2020 to 2023.
Kepler Communications’ planned LEO constellation is intended to become a space data relay system to serve other constellations with high-speed data backhaul capabilities.
Kepler Communications will continue building its 140-satellite constellation in 2022.
Deutsche Bahn will begin deploying Kepler Communications products in the first quarter of 2020.
Kepler Communications plans to operate an internet-of-things constellation with 140 cubesats at an altitude of 575 km.
Kepler Communications raised $16,000,000 last year in a Series A investment round led by Costanoa Ventures.
Kepler Communications plans to operate 14 satellites by the end of 2020.
Kepler Communications has two prototype satellites in orbit for a Ku-band constellation planned to include up to 140 satellites.
SpaceX, OneWeb, and Kepler Communications plan to use Ku-band spectrum for their constellations.
Kepler Communications has two of a planned 140 Internet-of-Things satellites in orbit, with its first satellite having launched in February 2018.