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Launch Date
1/1/2023
Launch Site
CC LC40
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Launch Vehicle
Falcon 9 FT5 (Falcon 9 Family)
Al Yah Satellite Communications Company PJSC (Yahsat) selected SpaceX’s Falcon 9 to launch Thuraya 4‑NGS.
Yahsat selected SpaceX to launch its Thuraya 4-NGS mobile connectivity satellite in 2023.
The Thuraya 4-NGS contract announced in August 2020 included an option for a second satellite, Thuraya 5-NGS.
A Falcon 9 will launch the Thuraya 4-NGS satellite in the second half of 2023.
Thuraya 4-NGS will replace two existing Boeing-built Thuraya satellites that provide L-band mobile voice and data services from Europe to the Asia-Pacific region.
Yahsat selected Airbus to develop Thuraya 4-NGS in 2020 and completed a preliminary design review in June 2021.
Yahsat plans to launch Thuraya 4‑NGS in the second half of 2023.
Thuraya 4-NGS is slated to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 in the second half of 2023.
Thuraya 4-NGS is planned for launch in the second half of 2023 with operations commencing in 2024.
Yahsat selected SpaceX on 2021-09-08 to launch its Thuraya 4-NGS satellite on a Falcon 9 in the second half of 2023.
Al Yah Satellite Communications Company PJSC (Yahsat) awarded Comtech Telecommunications a $29,000,000 contract to deliver communications technologies and location services for the Thuraya 4-NGS satellite constellation.
Thuraya 4-NGS is a satellite constellation operated by Yahsat that will host the communications technologies and location services delivered by Comtech.
SpaceX is slated to launch the Thuraya 4-NGS satellite for Yahsat in 2024.
Airbus manufactured Thuraya-4-NGS for Yahsat based on the all-electric Airbus Eurostar Neo platform.