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Lucy will fly by five Trojans in the leading swarm between August 2027 and November 2028.
Lucy will perform an additional Earth flyby in December 2030 before flying by two asteroids in the trailing Trojan swarm in March 2033.
SpaceX acquired Swarm Technologies, a company operating a constellation of smallsats that provide internet-of-things services.
Swarm Technologies sought Federal Communications Commission approval on 2021-08-06 to transfer its existing satellite and ground station licenses to SpaceX.
Swarm had raised a total of $35,000,000 and had about 30 employees as of a March webinar hosted by Caltech’s Keck Institute for Space Studies.
Swarm Holdco, the SpaceX subsidiary that is merging with Swarm, was incorporated in Delaware on 2021-05-05.
Swarm’s last announced funding round was a Series A in early 2019 that raised $25,000,000.
The companies signed the merger deal on 2021-07-16 under which Swarm would continue to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of SpaceX.
Advanced students can program custom maneuvers for the swarm using Scratch, Swift, and Python.
Swarm Technologies received its FCC license in January 2019.
Swarm raised a $25,000,000 Series A funding round shortly after the FCC fine.
Swarm announced commercial services on 2021-02-09 when its constellation reached 81 satellites in space.
Swarm launched satellites in March 2018 without FCC approval.
The Federal Communications Commission granted Swarm a license in January 2019 to launch 150 satellites in a VHF band previously used only by Orbcomm.
Swarm was fined $900,000 over five years for launching satellites without prior FCC approval.
Leaf Space offers ground segment services to Swarm Technologies of the United States.
A LayerX customer previously paid about 450 New Zealand dollars (about $324) for a satellite communications service that costs about 15 New Zealand dollars on Swarm’s network.
Swarm plans to finish establishing a constellation of 150 commercial satellites by the end of the year to provide continuous global coverage.
Customers pay $119 for Swarm Tiles satellite data modems and $5 per device per month for Swarm service.
Omnispace is competing with satellite IoT companies including Astrocast, Kepler, and Swarm, and those companies have already launched satellites and started offering services.