The performance test satellite deployed from KSLV-2 will deploy four smaller satellites developed by domestic universities in the coming days.
The performance test satellite exchanged its first signals with a ground station associated with South Korea’s research center in Antarctica about 42 minutes after liftoff on 2024-06-21.
AST SpaceMobile plans to launch the BlueWalker 3 test satellite from Cape Canaveral, Florida during the week of 2022-08-15.
California-based startup Xona Space Systems recently deployed a test satellite and is developing plans for a constellation that could supplement or replace existing GNSS capabilities.
BlueWalker 1, AST SpaceMobile’s first in-house test satellite, was launched in April 2019 to validate the company’s satellite-to-cellular architecture using the 0.004 kg-LTE protocol.
AST SpaceMobile has signed a multi-launch agreement with SpaceX that covers the planned summer launch of the BlueWalker 3 test satellite, the launch of the first BlueBird satellite, and provides a framework for future launches.
AST SpaceMobile’s BlueWalker 3 test satellite is slated to launch from Cape Canaveral on a Falcon 9 vehicle.
A Long March 2D carried the classified Shiyan-13 test satellite into orbit on 2022-01-16.
Beijing-based Commsat completed a factory review for a 220-kilogram Ka- and V-band broadband communication test satellite on 2021-12-30.
A Long March 3B rocket lifted off from Xichang Launch Complex 2 at 11:43 a.m. Eastern on 2021-12-29 carrying the communications technology test satellite TJSW-9 into geosynchronous transfer orbit.
JAXA’s Super Low Altitude Test Satellite (SLATS) operated at an altitude of about 200 km from 2017 to 2019 using xenon-powered electric thrusters.
Semtech and EchoStar Mobile launched an initiative to test satellite connectivity services enabled by the LoRaWAN protocol.
The Ministry of Education plans to spend 4,500,000,000 JPY to develop Engineering Test Satellite-9 as part of fiscal year 2021 space expenditures.
The primary payload on the Long March 8 that carried Hisea-1 to orbit was XJY-7, a classified remote sensing technology test satellite developed by the China Academy of Space Technology.
JDRS-1 replaces the Kodama Data Relay Test Satellite (DRTS) that was launched in 2002 and was operational through August 2017.
A multi-functional test satellite developed by the People’s Liberation Army was also launched to test and verify new communications, navigation, and remote sensing technologies.
A Long March 3B launched the classified TJSW-5 technology test satellite into geosynchronous transfer orbit from Xichang late Monday.