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Object 26870 had a perigee of about 105 kilometers and likely reentered the atmosphere.

Mentioned as: Perigee AerospaceNarrative GeneralMay 20, 2024Assigning an identification to a satellite

SSC and Perigee Aerospace will develop a service concept with a shared payload space onboard Blue Whale 1 to accommodate both companies’ customer bases.

Mentioned as: Perigee AerospaceTechnical ProductMay 7, 2024Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) + Perigee to launch satellites from Esrange

SSC and Perigee Aerospace Inc. have signed a collaborative agreement to launch satellites jointly from the Esrange Space Center in northern Sweden starting in 2025.

Mentioned as: Perigee AerospaceOrg RelationshipMay 7, 2024Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) + Perigee to launch satellites from Esrange

Perigee Aerospace’s Blue Whale 1 microlauncher will be the first orbital rocket launched from Esrange Space Center.

Mentioned as: Perigee AerospaceOrg RelationshipMay 7, 2024Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) + Perigee to launch satellites from Esrange

SSC’s global satellite ground station network will enforce and support the joint orbital launch service developed with Perigee Aerospace.

Mentioned as: Perigee AerospaceOrg RelationshipMay 7, 2024Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) + Perigee to launch satellites from Esrange

Perigee Aerospace’s Blue Whale 1 is a two-stage launch vehicle with the capacity to place up to 200 kg into a 500 km sun-synchronous orbit.

Mentioned as: Perigee AerospaceTechnical ProductMay 7, 2024Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) + Perigee to launch satellites from Esrange

A successful perigee orbit-raising burn by the DRO-A or DRO-B spacecraft could raise apogee to lunar distance and would require an additional burn to enter the intended lunar orbit.

Mentioned as: Perigee AerospaceNarrative GeneralMar 28, 2024China appears to be trying to save stricken spacecraft from lunar limbo

Queqiao-2 deployed its solar arrays and entered a predetermined orbit with a perigee of 200 km and an apogee of 420,0 m.

Mentioned as: Perigee AerospaceNarrative GeneralMar 19, 2024China launches Queqiao-2 relay satellite to support moon missions

The five orbit raising maneuvers raised the perigee altitude of Malligyong 1 by nine kilometers, from 488 to 497 kilometers.

Mentioned as: perigeeTechnical ProductMar 4, 2024A North Korean satellite starts showing signs of life

On the evening of 2024-02-18 PT, Rocket Lab’s spacecraft will perform an initial Curie engine burn to slow the spacecraft, lower its perigee, and place Winnebago-1 into a 300 km x 500 km staging orbit.

Mentioned as: Perigee AerospaceOrg RelationshipFeb 16, 2024Rocket Lab Receives FAA Approval for Varda Space Industries' Manufacturing Capsule Reentry

The spacecraft separation occurred 16 minutes into the flight at a perigee of 180 km.

Mentioned as: Perigee AerospaceNarrative GeneralJul 17, 2023The Chandrayaan-3 mission to the Moon is underway

The payloads, including the EOS-02 Earth observation satellite and the AzaadiSAT small satellite, ended up in an orbit with a perigee of only 75.7 kilometers.

Mentioned as: Perigee AerospaceNarrative GeneralFeb 2, 2023ISRO completes investigation into SSLV launch failure

Orbital Focus observer Robert Christy recorded an orbital change on 2022-10-23 when the spacecraft raised its perigee to a near-circular 597 by 608-kilometer orbit.

Mentioned as: Perigee AerospaceNarrative GeneralOct 25, 2022China’s spaceplane raises orbit and national funding

The two satellites from the CHESS project will be placed in a circular and elliptical orbit with a low perigee to sample the atmosphere's higher layers at the perigee and the exosphere at the apogee.

Mentioned as: Perigee AerospaceNarrative GeneralSep 22, 2022Hosted payload agreement signed between D-Orbit + EPFL Spacecraft Team

The 2022-06-25 Cygnus thruster burn raised the International Space Station’s perigee by about 800 m and its apogee by nearly 200 m.

Mentioned as: Perigee AerospaceNarrative GeneralJun 28, 2022Cygnus departs ISS after reboost test

By mid-October 2021 Shiyan-10 had raised its perigee through small engine activity, indicating the satellite was active.

Mentioned as: Perigee AerospaceNarrative GeneralApr 15, 2022Chinese Shiyan-10 satellite reappears in new Molniya orbit months after launch anomaly

Falcon 9’s second stage deployed the 49 Starlink satellites into an orbit with a perigee of approximately 210 km above Earth.

Mentioned as: Perigee AerospaceNarrative GeneralFeb 13, 2022Starlink Satellite Loss Explained

New orbital elements published by the U.S. Space Force indicate Shiyan-10 performed small burns to raise its perigee to about 567 x 40,428 km.

Mentioned as: Perigee AerospaceOrg RelationshipOct 19, 2021A Chinese satellite is now active weeks after an anomaly during launch

Zhongxing-18 launched in August 2019 on a Long March 3B but suffered unspecified anomalies and remains in geosynchronous transfer orbit with a perigee of 147 km.

Mentioned as: Perigee AerospaceNarrative GeneralSep 9, 2021China launches ChinaSat-9B broadcast satellite

After Blue Whale 1, Perigee Aerospace intends to develop a larger vehicle capable of launching 250 to 300 kg to low Earth orbit within two to three years of Blue Whale 1’s maiden launch.

Mentioned as: perigee aerospaceTechnical ProductOct 23, 2019Backed by Samsung, South Korean startup Perigee aims for 2020 maiden launch
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