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Shannon

retired
CommunicationsLEOCOSPAR 2021-059BMLaunched 6/30/2021
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Mission & Launch
Launch Mission
Transporter-2
Launch Vehicle
Falcon 9 FT5
Launch Date
6/30/2021
Last Contact
12/22/2024
Orbit & Mass
Orbit Class
LEO
Altitude
524 km
Inclination
97.51 deg
Orbit Plane
1
Dry Mass
30 kg
Total Mass
30 kg
Payload Classification
Mission Type
Communications
Payload Category
COM
Payload Class
B
Organizations
Operator
Lynk
Manufacturer
Lynk
Constellation
Name
Lynk Global
Active Satellites
7
Registry
COSPAR ID
2021-059BM
UN Registration
ST/SG/SER.E/1024
Track
Mentions
12
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Shannon Curry is MAVEN’s principal investigator and a researcher at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder.

GovernanceValue 2.2Jun 3, 2026NASA ends MAVEN Mars mission after loss of signal

Patrick Shannon won the Startup Space pitch contest in 2024 as CEO of TrustPoint GPS.

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Feb 27, 2026
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The Dragon Endeavour is onboard the recovery vessel, Shannon.

GeneralValue 3.6Jan 15, 2026RT by @Cosmic_Penguin: The Dragon Endeavour is now safely onboard the recovery vessel, Shannon. Crew member egress is coming up next. Watch live: pic.

Shannon Lucid flew on five Shuttle missions and spent six months aboard Russia’s Mir space station.

GeneralValue 2.0Sep 5, 2023Cracking the celestial ceiling

Lynk Global’s 5th satellite is named Shannon and launched on 2021-06-30.

PlanCapabilityGeneralValue 3.8Sep 29, 2021Direct 2-Way, Sat-To-Mobile-Phone Comms Via Cell Towers In Space Are Proven Viable By Lynk Global

The Crew-1 spacecraft remained at the International Space Station and was scheduled to return with NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi on 2021-04-28.

PlanGeneralValue 4.0Apr 23, 2021SpaceX launches NASA Crew-2 mission

The Crew-1 spacecraft is scheduled to depart the International Space Station on 2021-04-28, returning NASA’s Shannon Walker, Victor Glover, and Michael Hopkins and JAXA’s Soichi Noguchi to Earth.

PlanGeneralValue 4.0Apr 20, 2021NASA completes launch readiness review for Crew-2 mission

Expedition 65 will be led by station commander Shannon Walker and include NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Michael Hopkins, and Mark Vande Hei.

GovernanceGeneralValue 3.0Apr 14, 2021NASA to provide live coverage of Space Station crew landing

Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi will return to Earth in the Crew-1 spacecraft in late April or 2021-05-05 if Crew-2 launches on its current schedule.

PlanValue 4.0Jan 30, 2021Next SpaceX commercial crew mission to launch in April

A SpaceX Crew Dragon is scheduled to launch 2020-10-31 with NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi.

PlanGovernanceValue 4.0Sep 28, 2020NASA still searching for source of ISS air leak

Boeing vice president and SLS program manager John Shannon attributed the roughly two-year schedule slip to challenges using friction stir welding and underestimating the complexity of building the engine section that houses the four RS-25 engines.

GovernancePlanCapabilityValue 3.8Jan 9, 2020First SLS core stage ready for shipment

John Shannon, vice president and program manager for the SLS program at Boeing, stated that they underestimated the required work to modify shuttle-heritage hardware for SLS.

GovernanceGeneralValue 2.5Oct 10, 2018NASA inspector general sharply criticizes SLS core stage development