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Hosted Payloads for Highly Elliptical Orbit

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Class: CommunicationsSubclass: TransceiverOrganization: Northrop Grumman
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Customer

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Inmarsat

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None

Corroboration Count

1

Orbit Type

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Highly Elliptical Orbit

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None

Corroboration Count

1

Manufacturer

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Northrop Grumman

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None

Corroboration Count

1

Mission Purpose

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Part of Inmarsat's payload pipeline for enhanced communications services

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None

Corroboration Count

1

Quantity Ordered

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2

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None

Corroboration Count

1

Deployment Timeline

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By 2025

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None

Corroboration Count

1
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Inmarsat orders 3 smallsats to bolster L-band safety services1 mention

May 19, 2023

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Inmarsat has five more payloads in the pipeline for deployment by 2025: three payloads from Airbus for the operator’s Global Xpress Ka-band broadband network in geostationary orbit and two hosted payloads Northrop Grumman is building for highly elliptical orbit.

Mentioned as: hosted payloadsSourceMay 19, 2023