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Astrocast originally planned a constellation of 64 operational satellites before increasing the design to 80 operational satellites to improve coverage around the equator.
Astrocast and Airbus developed a low-cost communications module and an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chipset that will be ready for sale in the second half of 2020.
Airbus Defence and Space has supported Astrocast in developing data protocols.
Researchers from the ETH Zurich Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry collaborated with Astrocast to design the GNSS-based subsystem around u-blox GNSS receivers.
Astrocast raised $9,200,000 on 2019-09-04 as it seeks to deploy its own satellite constellation.
Astrocast is preparing to launch a constellation of 80 satellites by 2023 or 2024.
Astrocast scheduled another 10 satellites to launch at the end of 2020 on an Arianespace Vega rocket.
Astrocast raised an additional 9 million Swiss francs in a Series A financing round announced 2019-09-04, bringing its total fundraising since 2014 to 16.6 million Swiss francs.
Astrocast has two of a planned 64 satellites in orbit, with one launching on the same December Falcon 9 mission as Hiber and another launching 2019-03-31 on a PSLV rocket.
Helios Wire and Astrocast launched their first satellites on the 2018-12-03 mission.
The Day 2 issue of the Show Daily was published on 2018-08-08 and features coverage of D-Orbit, Astrocast, Helios Wire, Made In Space, Roccor, Stellar Exploration, and smallsat cybersecurity.
D-Orbit won a deal to launch 10 Astrocast cubesats on a future Vega mission.
The 10 Astrocast cubesats will be deployed into sun-synchronous orbits at an altitude between 450 and 600 km.
Kjell Karlsen, Astrocast CFO, wore a VR headset at the D-Orbit booth before Astrocast and D-Orbit signed a launch agreement on 2018-08-07.
D-Orbit CCO Renato Panesi and Astrocast CEO Fabien Jorda popped a bottle of champagne after signing a launch agreement on 2018-08-07 at the SmallSat conference.
A contract signed during the AIAA/Utah State University Conference on Small Satellites on 2018-08-07 covers the launch of 10 Astrocast cubesats as secondary payloads on a Vega rocket in late 2019 or early 2020.
Astrocast and D-Orbit signed a launch agreement on 2018-08-07.
Astrocast is finalizing the design of its operational satellites, which will differ slightly from two demonstration satellites scheduled to launch on Spaceflight’s SSO-A dedicated rideshare Falcon 9 mission late 2018.
GomSpace Sweden will deliver the propulsion systems for Astrocast in 2018-10-01 and 2019-01-01.
A satellite using GomSpace Sweden’s cold gas propulsion system launched on 2018-02-02 in the GOMX-4B mission and, together with its twin GOMX-4A, demonstrated the orbit control that Astrocast is planning.