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Astranis announced Omega at the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
SpaceX is scheduled to launch a batch of four Astranis satellites on a single Falcon 9 rocket 2024 as Block 2, and those satellites were upgraded to fix the solar array component glitch.
Astranis announced on 2024-04-10 plans to deploy 50% larger broadband satellites beginning in 2026 to offer five times more throughput while remaining far smaller than typical geostationary spacecraft to save costs.
Astranis launched its first satellite in 2023.
Astranis is developing two Omega variants: a dual-use satellite using commercial and military Ka-band frequencies and a military-only version using X-band.
Astranis made significant upgrades for the four satellites scheduled to launch in 2024 and additional upgrades for the five satellites scheduled to launch in 2025.
Astranis Omega is a next-generation broadband communications system that delivers better pound-for-pound performance than any other geostationary satellite in orbit today.
Astranis is ordering larger deployable reflectors for Omega from Tendeg, a company based in Louisville, Colorado.
Each of the nine Astranis satellites customers have ordered for launch over the next two years is designed to provide 10–12 gigabits per second of throughput.
Astranis spacecraft are scaled to provide targeted broadband services over smaller areas such as individual countries, similar to Switzerland’s Swissto12 small geostationary satellites.
Astranis will launch the first Astranis Omega satellites in 2026.
Astranis launched its first satellite in 2023.
Astranis Omega will be about 70% built in-house.
Astranis will complete the first Omega flight vehicle in mid-2025.
Astranis built about half of its first satellite in house and built the most recent satellites at a level closer to 60% in house.
Arcturus, the first and only Astranis satellite deployed to date, suffered solar power issues after launching last year.
Astranis has announced an additional nine programs launching over the next 18 months.
Thaicom ordered a new small geostationary satellite from Astranis for launch in 2025.
Astranis has partnered with Orbith to provide a dedicated MicroGEO communications satellite for Argentina.
The Orbith-dedicated MicroGEO satellite will launch in 2025 as part of Astranis’s third launch.