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Kepler Communications and C-Com connected Kepler’s demonstration cubesats KIPP and CASE using C-Com’s iNetVu FLY-981 Ku-band terminal and demonstrated a 100 Mbps downlink and a 30 Mbps uplink.
Kepler launched one prototype in January on a Chinese Long March 11 rocket and has a second prototype planned for launch in November on an Indian PSLV with a third prototype under construction.
Kepler Communications, a Canadian startup, received FCC approval for a 140-satellite Ku-band constellation.
The FCC’s 2018-11-15 meeting docket includes authorizing two NGSO satellite systems by Kepler Communications and LeoSat and modifying existing authorizations for SpaceX and Telesat.
The Federal Communications Commission scheduled a vote for 2018-11-15 on proposed satellite constellations from Kepler Communications and LeoSat and on expansion requests from SpaceX and Telesat.
Two reaction control wheels failed on Kepler in 2013, ending the spacecraft’s primary mission and leading to the development of the K2 extended mission.
Kepler launched in March 2009.
Two prior observing campaigns by Kepler were interrupted by issues related to running out of hydrazine fuel for its thrusters.
NASA successfully downlinked data from Kepler during the two previously interrupted observing campaigns.
NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has entered a safe mode due to running low on fuel.
During a routine communications session on October 19, controllers found that Kepler had entered a no-fuel-use sleep mode, disrupting operations.
Downloading data from Kepler requires reorienting the spacecraft, which is more fuel-intensive than routine observations.
Kepler uses thrusters to properly point the spacecraft, and the mission will end when hydrazine is exhausted.
The latest observational effort by Kepler, called Campaign 20, started on October 14.
Pressure in the fuel tanks on the thrusters of Kepler is dropping, indicating that it is running low on fuel.
The shipping company F. Laeisz uses Kepler Communications’ satellite to connect the Polarstern icebreaking vessel at high latitudes beyond most geostationary satellite coverage.
Kepler Communications operates a prototype cubesat called KIPP that provides wideband service.
Kepler Communications uses polar orbits for its satellites, producing store-and-forward latency around 90 minutes at the poles and 12 to 24 hours at the equator with a single satellite.
Kepler Communications raised $16,000,000 to build and launch its first-generation constellation of up to 15 satellites.
Kepler Communications expects to have its first-generation constellation in orbit in 2020 to provide store-and-forward communications and narrowband connectivity to sensors and other Internet of Things devices.