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Worldwide Satellite Magazine Satmagazinesatmagazine July / August 2021 Worldwide Satellite Magazine SatMagazineSatMagazine July / August 2021 Agile satelllite manufacturing — image is courtesy of LeoStella Are you ready to put your teleport service ALWAYS in the hands of a world-class team? 2019 Teleport of the Year Publishing Operations InfoBeam Features Silvano Payne, Publisher + Executive Writer SpaceX Transporter-2 Mission ............................... 4 Focus: LeoStella — .............................................26 Simon Payne, Chief Technical Officer Continuous Manufacturing Agility For Smallsats Hartley G. Lesser, Editorial Director NOAA .................................................................... 6 Authors: Brian Rider + Breanne Tuttle, LeoStella Pattie Lesser, Executive Editor Donald McGee, Production Manager Wavestream ........................................................... 8 Teresa Sanderson, Operations Director Sean Payne, Business Development Manager NASA + Space Flight Laboratory .......................... 8 Dan Makinster, Technical Advisor Bharti Global + OneWeb ..................................... 10 Advancing Electric Propulsion Engine .................30 Ground Testing Intuitive Machines + Goonhilly ............................ 12 Author: Anne Wainscott-Sargent, Georgia Institute of Technology Infostellar and Amazon Web Services ................. 13 Senior Columnists / Contributors Chris Forrester, Broadgate Publications Gilmour Space ..................................................... 14 Karl Fuchs, iDirect Government Bob Gough, Goonhilly Earth Station Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) .......................... 16 A Kratos Constellations Conversation With ........34 Rebecca M. Cowen-Hirsch, Inmarsat Robert Bell, World Teleport Association (WTA) Ken Peterman, Viasat Microchip ............................................................. 16 Giles Peters, Track24 Defense Leaf Space ........................................................... 17 Koen Willems, ST Engineering Mike Young, Envistacom D-Orbit + Stellar Project ...................................... 18 Astroscale UK + RUAG Space ............................. 20 Path Diversity With Satellite Connectivity ..........38 Fortifies Comms For Emergency Response Virgin Orbit ......................................................... 20 Author: Tony Bardo, Hughes Network Systems Issue’s Authors Northrop Grumman ............................................. 22 Tony Bardo LeoLabs ............................................................... 24 Ken Grelck At Home Connectivity In Rural Locations ............40 With LEO Satellites Will Mudge Author: Will Mudge, Speedcast Advertisers Brian Rider ACORDE Technologies. S.A. ................................ 19 Paul Townley-Smith Advantech Wireless ............................................. 23 The Way Ahead When Commercializing ..............44 AirBorn, Inc. ......................................................... 29 Breanne Tuttle Space Optics Arabsat Satellite .................................................. 21 Author: Paul Townley-Smith, ZYGO Electro Optics Anne Wainscott-Sargent AvL Technologies ................................................. 11 Boeing Defense, Space and Security (BDS) ........... 5 Comtech EF Data ................................................. 13 CPI SATCOM Products ......................................... 17 Better Satellite World: .........................................48 Is There A Satellite Within? EM Solutions, Inc. (EMS) ...................................... 25 Author: SSPI Background image: The SpaceX, Falcon Mission Microwave Technologies, LLC .................. 9 9 launch of their Transporter-2 mission. Image is courtesy of SpaceX. RF-Design ............................................................ 15 Santander Teleport ................................................ 1 Satellite Innovation 2021 Silicon Valley ............... 53 Why Now Is The Time To Transform ....................50 SATCOM Service Delivery SpaceBridge ........................................................ 49 Author: Ken Grelck, Capgemini Engineering Space Foundation — 36th Space Symposium ...... 37 ST Engineering iDirect ........................................... 3 Wavestream Corporation ...................................... 7 SatMagazine is published 11 times per year by SatNews Publishers, 800 Siesta Way, Sonoma, California - 94576 - USA Phone: (707) 939-9306 / Fax: (707) 939-9235 © 2021 SatNews Publishers We reserve the right to edit all submitted materials to meet publication content guidelines, as well as for grammar and spelling errors, or to move articles to an alternative issue to accommodate publication space requirements, or remove content due to space restrictions or unacceptable content. Submission of articles does not constitute acceptance of said material by SatNews Publishers. Edited materials may, or may not, be returned to authors and/or companies for review, prior to publication. The views expressed in SatNews Publish- ers’ various publications do not necessarily reflect the views opinions of SatNews Publishers. All rights reserved. All included imagery is courtesy of, and copyright to, the respective companies and/or named individuals. SatNews reserves the right to alter publication dates and print issue designations, based on industry event date changes and circumstances that are beyond the control of SatNews Publishers or the company’s staff. SatMagazine Page 2 July / August 2021 You see the opportunity of an IoT solution to capture new markets. Unlock the potential with your existing ST Engineering iDirect hub infrastructure. By adding cutting-edge IoT terminals and optimized waveform technology, your new satellite IoT solution begins now. Find out more: idirect.net/products/iot-solutions/ InfoBeam The SpaceX Transporter-2 Mission Launches Without A Hitch The Transporter-2 launch. Liftoff occurred from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on schedule, with this Falcon 9’s first stage booster previously having supported the launch of GPS III Space Vehicle 03, Turksat 5A and five Starlink missions. SpaceX Falcon 9 Transporter-2 mission fairing before launch. All story imagery is courtesy of SpaceX. Following a disappointing ‘No Go’ yesterday, June 29, for the launch of the Transporter-2 mission, today’s launch attempt by SpaceX (June 30, 2021) experienced the exact opposite result… success! Then quite a feat occurred, as three Merlin engines engaged in burns to reduce speed of the 1st stage for landing… at Cape Canaveral and not out in the Atlantic Ocean aboard one of the firm’s droneships. Quite an amazing site watching the first stage accurately land in the exact, defined spot for its return. The successful launch of the SpaceX Transporter-2 mission from Cape Canaveral. This day, the weather was cooperating and the downrange indicators were all clear, unlike yesterday’s (June 29) incursion into this zone by an aircraft that caused a halt to the launch proceedings. Although the 88 commercial and government payloads within the 70-meter tall, Falcon 9 launch vehicle’s, 17-feet in diameter fairing — it’s third flight — for this Transporter-2 mission is not A perfect 1st stage landing for the SpaceX Transporter-2 mission quite the same number as the 144 smallsats SpaceX launched by the company on January 24, 2021, what makes this a unique, historic launch for the company is that, this time around, SpaceX is pushing more mass to orbit for the firm’s customers than their previous Transporter-1 mission. 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