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Human SpaceflightLEOCOSPAR 2016-024Launched 4/8/2016
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Mission & Launch
Launch Mission
Dragon CRS-8 Mission
Launch Vehicle
Falcon 9 FT3
Launch Date
4/8/2016
Orbit & Mass
Orbit Class
LEO
Altitude
404 km
Inclination
51.64 deg
Dry Mass
1,413 kg
Total Mass
0 kg
Payload Classification
Mission Type
Human Spaceflight
Payload Category
SS
Payload Class
B
Organizations
Operator
Bigelow Aerospace
Manufacturer
Bigelow Aerospace
Registry
COSPAR ID
2016-024
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Mentions
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Lumotive's LM10 is the world’s first digital beam steering solution.

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Lumotive's digital beam steering technology offers superior cost, size, and reliability compared to traditional mechanical lidar sensors.

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The high-gain antenna’s ability to beam data precisely was tested twice in 2022 at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.

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Namuga aims to leverage the advantages offered by pure solid-state lidar enabled by Lumotive’s LCM digital beam steering technology.

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Lumotive's LCM technology overcomes size, scalability, and reliability limitations of traditional mechanical beam steering systems.

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Optical Surfaces Ltd. supplies modular beam expander assembly components that include mounted primary and secondary mirrors pre-set to the correct positions for experiments relative to a 25×0.025 m M6 standard optical table hole pattern.

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Optical Surfaces Ltd. provides each customer with mounted beam expander mirror modules with all freedoms of movement fixed to give an accurate starting point for alignment.

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Optical Surfaces Ltd.'s pre-aligned modules provide a time-, space-, and cost-saving solution for beam expansion for optics up to 0.5 m in diameter.

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Each Tranche 1 Tracking Layer satellite will feature three optical communications terminals and a Ka-band, multi-beam payload for communications.

CapabilityValue 4.0Jun 22, 2023Raytheon Technologies Selects Mynaric to Supply Optical Communications Terminals for T1 Tracking Layer Program

Lumotive's patented technology delivers the world's first solid-state metasurface beam steering chips ready for mass production.

CapabilityGrowthValue 4.2Jun 2, 2023Lumotive Partners with Hokuyo for 3D Lidar Sensing

Hokuyo Automatic chose Lumotive’s LCM technology for its digital beam-steering capabilities.

RelationshipsCapabilityValue 4.2Jun 2, 2023Lumotive Partners with Hokuyo for 3D Lidar Sensing

The Milli SAT H LW GX unit supports automatic beam switching (ABS) using OpenAMIP and OpenBMIP protocols.

CapabilityValue 4.6May 30, 2023Get SAT + Inmarsat intro a new small terminal for government aviation

QuadSAT extracted information on the shape and size of the antenna's main beam and the level and position of sidelobes.

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ES XXV will be equipped with a high-power, multi-spot beam payload to enable DISH to provide high-quality content to its customers.

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SatixFy’s PRIME2 is a digital beamformer ASIC designed for massive MIMO antennas in space and multi-beam LEO/GEO aeronautical antennas.

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Intelsat launched the Intelsat 40e (IS-40e) geosynchronous satellite that uses spot-beam technology to provide capacity over North America for commercial aviation, mobility, and network service customers.

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