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ViaSat-3 F3’s reflector and boom have deployed in space.
Eärendil-1 will deploy a thin-film reflector 18 meters on a side.
The FCC said that operation of a solar reflector attached to Eärendil-1 was beyond the commission’s authority.
ViaSat-3 F3’s reflector and boom have successfully deployed.
Each reflector satellite is estimated to weigh about 22 to 34 kilograms fully fueled, and three satellites with a dispenser would total under 100 kilograms.
Reflect Orbital’s core technology for Eärendil-1 is an 18-meter film reflector designed to beam sunlight down to Earth.
A three-reflector display would brighten a single beam-width of sky for one or several scheduled nights and could be turned off by tilting the film so the reflection misses Earth.
A fixed reflector in a near-rectilinear halo orbit could keep a color lit over a given place for up to a couple of hours.
NISAR carries a 12-meter-wide drum-shaped reflector that is the largest radar antenna reflector NASA has ever sent into space.
Viasat disclosed that an unexpected event during reflector deployment on ViaSat-3 Americas could materially affect the spacecraft’s performance.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory provided NISAR’s L-band SAR and antenna reflector.
ViaSat-3 F1 experienced an anomaly during reflector deployment that limited its performance.
ViaSat-3 F3 uses a different reflector from a different manufacturer.
Viasat’s ViaSat-3 F2 reflector was photographed in space 22,236 miles above Earth.
ViaSat-3 F2 successfully deployed its reflector in geosynchronous orbit.
The large deployable reflector subsystem will fly aboard NEASTAR-1.
The NEASTAR-1 large deployable reflector subsystem contract is co-funded by ESA, with core funding from the German Space Agency within DLR and additional contributions from other ESA member states.
The SWISSto12 and HPS/LSS reflector project enables what the partners describe as the world’s first direct-to-device media broadcasting capability from geostationary orbit.
The NEASTAR-1 large deployable reflector subsystem was developed over more than 15 years under ESA’s ARTES program, ESA’s Earth Observation Technology Development activities, and the EU’s Horizon 2020 program.
SWISSto12 and Munich-based HPS/LSS have a contract to produce the first large deployable antenna reflector built in Europe for a commercial geostationary telecommunications satellite.