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CommunicationsLEOCOSPAR 2018-096LLaunched 11/29/2018
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Mission & Launch
Launch Mission
HySIS/Cubesats
Launch Vehicle
PSLV CA
Launch Date
11/29/2018
Last Contact
2/22/2023
Orbit & Mass
Orbit Class
LEO
Altitude
487.5 km
Inclination
97.48 deg
Dry Mass
3 kg
Total Mass
3 kg
Payload Classification
Mission Type
Communications
Payload Category
COM
Payload Class
B
Organizations
Operator
Kepler Communications
Manufacturer
AAC Clyde Space
Constellation
Name
Kepler Network
Active Satellites
12
Planned Satellites
18
Registry
COSPAR ID
2018-096L
UN Registration
ST/SG/SER.E/1060
Track
Mentions
200
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Jean-François Fallacher judged that the Flexsat America business case was not viable because returns would occur in the 2030s as more new constellations emerge.

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In 2011, Elon Musk told the Wall Street Journal that SpaceX astronauts would reach Mars in "best case, 10 years, worst case, 15 to 20 years."

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An amphibious recovery ship will be positioned just offshore in case the Mengzhou capsule separates from the booster early due to an anomaly.

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Debris from the Starlink 15-4 case landed in Poland in February 2025.

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Airbus made the case for a potential space merger involving Thales and Leonardo and also made the case against that merger.

GeneralValue 1.5Feb 2, 2026Airbus makes the case for space merger with Thales & Leonardo, and also makes the case against it

The IRUS program’s eight-month Phase A study contract will develop the technical groundwork and commercial case for in-orbit refurbishment and upgrading services.

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The IRUS contract is an eight-month Phase A study to develop the technical groundwork and commercial case for in-orbit refurbishment and upgrading services.

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SateAIs™ is a SpaceShift analytics brand that systematizes the company’s satellite data analysis algorithms by use case and delivery format.

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For deuterium–tritium collisions at 1 keV, increasing the laser intensity to 5 × 10^21 W/cm2 produces a calculated fusion-probability enhancement of nine orders of magnitude relative to the field-free case.

CapabilityGeneralValue 3.5Jan 28, 2026Low frequency lasers modeled to greatly boost nuclear fusion rates

For deuterium–tritium collisions at 1 keV, a low-frequency laser with photon energy of 1.55 eV and intensity of 10^20 W/cm2 increases the calculated fusion probability by three orders of magnitude relative to the field-free case.

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Deliveries of Shenzhou-23 and Shenzhou-24 spacecraft and their Long March 2F/G launch vehicles were moved up by six months to be available in case of an emergency requiring a new spacecraft.

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The model used the European Space Agency’s Argonaut mission as a case study to simulate methane spread during a landing at the South Pole.

GeneralCapabilityValue 1.8Jan 15, 2026Study Suggests Lunar Spacecraft Exhaust Could Obscure Clues to Origins of Life

Rocket Lab will wait for the Neutron rocket to provide its reusability case in approximately 3 years.

PlanValue 3.0Jan 8, 2026RT by @Cosmic_Penguin: .@RocketLab: We'll wait for #Neutron rocket to provide its reusabiity case in ~ 3 yrs before we focus on investments in our ultimate goal: our own constellation. Current assumption: Building 4 Neutrons gets us 16 launches per year at the start. https://www.spaceintelreport.com/rocket-lab-well-wait-for-neutron-rocket-to-prove-its-reusability-before-we-start-investing-in-our-future-constellation/

SpaceX prioritizes designs that enable satellites to return to the atmosphere quickly in case of failures.

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MICE will be used for deorbiting satellites in case they stop functioning or at the end of their operational life.

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NASA has not announced a timeline for declaring MAVEN unrecoverable and continues to treat the anomaly as an active recovery case.

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The study strengthens the scientific case for a dedicated Uranus mission to capture how its radiation environment evolves over time and under varying solar wind conditions.

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The success of the OSIRIS-REx mission strengthens the case for the upcoming Mars Sample Return campaign and future commercial asteroid prospecting missions.

PlanGeneralValue 2.0Dec 4, 2025NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Samples Reveal Biological Precursors and ‘Space Gum’

Shenzhou-23 is not ready at Jiuquan spaceport in case of emergency.

GeneralPlanValue 2.0Dec 1, 2025Through the incident China has demonstrated a successful and efficient emergency response. There's a caveat, however, and knock-on effects: Shenzhou-23 is not ready at Jiuquan spaceport in case of emergency. Schedule is being pushed up, delivery expected in January.

Interstellar Technologies noted that acquiring private customer satellites for the first rocket, which often only performs launch demonstrations, is a rare case globally.

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