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Kepler plans to incorporate propulsion into its satellites in 2020.
The two satellites Kepler will launch with GK Launch Services have a matured design with upgraded components including a more powerful software-defined radio.
Kepler arranged the Soyuz launch through Innovative Space Logistics, the Dutch launch broker that arranged Kepler’s first two prototypes to launch in 2018 on a Chinese Long March 11 and an Indian PSLV.
Kepler will launch two six-unit cubesats on a Russian Soyuz rocket operated by GK Launch Services in mid-2020.
Kepler plans to deploy a 140-satellite constellation starting with at least 15 commercial spacecraft by the end of 2020.
Kepler Communications’ planned LEO constellation is intended to become a space data relay system to serve other constellations with high-speed data backhaul capabilities.
Kepler has procured spacecraft platforms for the two satellites it will launch with GK Launch Services but declined to name the provider or providers.
GK Launch Services will use Soyuz-2 family launch vehicles to launch Kepler’s next-generation satellites.
Kepler is planning to place future satellites at 575 km to stay above the 1,584 Starlink satellites SpaceX plans to operate at 550 km.
Kepler Communications plans to place approximately 140 satellites in Low Earth Orbit in three incremental phases from 2020 to 2023.
Kepler Communications raised $16,000,000 last year in a Series A investment round led by Costanoa Ventures.
Kepler Communications plans to operate an internet-of-things constellation with 140 cubesats at an altitude of 575 km.
Deutsche Bahn will begin deploying Kepler Communications products in the first quarter of 2020.
Kepler Communications will continue building its 140-satellite constellation in 2022.
Kepler Communications plans to operate 14 satellites by the end of 2020.
Kepler Communications has two prototype satellites in orbit for a Ku-band constellation planned to include up to 140 satellites.
SpaceX, OneWeb, and Kepler Communications plan to use Ku-band spectrum for their constellations.
Kepler Communications has two of a planned 140 Internet-of-Things satellites in orbit, with its first satellite having launched in February 2018.
OneWeb and Kepler Communications objected mainly to SpaceX's request to use Ku-band ground stations for some lower-orbiting satellites on the grounds that the ground stations could cause interference with their Ku-band satellite networks.
Kepler Communications’ third satellite is scheduled to launch later 2019.