Worldwide Satellite Magazine SatMagazineSatMagazine June 2021 Cover image is courtesy of Gilat Satellite Networks. Read Gilat’s Ubiquitous Connectivity With NexGen SATCOM feature on page 38. Design & Development Interconnects Cable, Flex, & PCB Assemblies ® Model-to-Market Solutions Power Supplies Leverage our engineering expertise from sketch, formal Box Builds design, prototype, testing, qualification to mass production — Lab Testing & Qualification speeding time to market. Learn more at www.airborn.com Mass Production Publishing Operations InfoBeam Features Silvano Payne, Publisher + Executive Writer SpaceX ...................................................................... 4 Forrester Reports: Satellite Operators — 2021 ..... 24 Simon Payne, Chief Technical Officer This year’s prospects remain rather grim Hartley G. Lesser, Editorial Director OneWeb ................................................................... 6 by Chris Forrester, Senior Columnist Pattie Lesser, Executive Editor Donald McGee, Production Manager NanoAvionics ............................................................ 7 Teresa Sanderson, Operations Director Sean Payne, Business Development Manager Executive Spotlight: Luis Gomes, CEO, .................. 30 Dan Makinster, Technical Advisor Satellite Vu ............................................................... 8 AAC Clyde Space Dragonfly Aerospace .............................................. 10 Achieving Ubiquitous Connectivity ........................ 38 SpaceLink ................................................................ 12 with Next Generation SATCOM by Doreet Oren, Gilat Satellite Networks Senior Columnists / Contributors Kleos Space ............................................................ 14 Chris Forrester, Broadgate Publications Karl Fuchs, iDirect Government Ursa Space .............................................................. 16 Bob Gough, Goonhilly Earth Station Preserving The Space Environment ........................ 46 Rebecca M. Cowen-Hirsch, Inmarsat by Dr. Walter Scott, Maxar Technologies Ken Peterman, Viasat Kymeta Corporation ............................................... 18 Giles Peters, Track24 Defense Koen Willems, ST Engineering Lynk Global ............................................................. 19 Mike Young, Envistacom Executive Spotlight: Austin Link, ............................ 50 ICEYE ...................................................................... 20 Co-Founder, Starfish Space Viasat ...................................................................... 22 Issue’s Authors Iridium Communications ......................................... 23 Remote Network Maintenance............................... 54 Andy Bowyer by Integrasys Chris Forrester Dawn Aerospace..................................................... 42 Doreet Oren Carlos Placido Gilat Satellite Networks ......................................... 44 Dr. Max Polyakov We’re Polluting Our Future Home… ...................... 56 Dr. Walter Scott Intersputnik Int’l Organization ............................... 44 Before We Even Live There of Space Communications by Dr. Max Polyakov, Noosphere Ventures Executive Spotlight: Jeff Ransdell, ......................... 60 Co-Founder, Fuel Venture Capital Shifting Sands of SATCOM Capacity Pricing .......... 64 Advertisers by Carlos Placido, NSR Advantech Wireless .................................................29 AirBorn Inc. ................................................................1 AvL Technologies .....................................................11 Boeing Defense, Space and Security (BDS) ...............3 Focus On: Kleos Space ........................................... 66 C-COM Satellite Systems, Inc. ...................................9 by Andy Bowyer, Kleos Space Comtech Command &Control / TCS ........................13 CPI SATCOM Products ...............................................5 DH Satellite (DH ANTENNA) ...................................18 EM Solutions ............................................................45 Es’hailSat .................................................................21 MilSat Symposium ...................................................71 ND SATCOM Products GmbH .................................37 SpaceBridge ............................................................15 Space Foundation — 36th Space Symposium ..........43 Terrasat Communications, Inc. .................................23 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. 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CHANGES, SHARING AND/OR DISTRIBUTING CONTENT IN WHOLE OR IN PART ARE STRICTLY PROHIBITED. LICENSING RIGHTS AND APPROVALS MUST BE REQUESTED AND APPROVED TO/BY FCB CHICAGO. Images: 11303786C01_R3_Satellite.tif (300 ppi; CMYK), Boeing_white_50mm.eps InfoBeam SpaceX’s Starlink Missions Are One half of Falcon 9’s fairing previously supported four Starlink Quite Uplifting — Triple Play missions and the other half previously supported a Starlink mission and the Transporter-1 mission. Sixty Starlinks Successful Sendoff Then, on Saturday, May 15, another of the company’s follow-up Starlink missions occurred, with the smallsats nestled aboard a Falcon 9 launch vehicle that lifted off from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. SpaceX was successful with the launch on Wednesday, May 26, with the firm’s Falcon 9 launching 60 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. On board this mission were 52 Starlink satellites, a Capella Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite, and Tyvak-0130, an optical spectrum astronomy observation satellite. Falcon 9’s first stage booster previously supported the Sentinel-6A mission. Following stage separation, SpaceX successfully landed Falcon 9’s first stage on the “Just Read the Instructions” droneship, located in the Atlantic Ocean. Capella Space SAR satellite. The Falcon 9 first stage booster that supports this mission previously launched NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Space Station, ANASIS-II, CRS-21, Transporter-1, and three Starlink missions. SatMagazine Page 4 June 2021 InfoBeam Following stage separation, SpaceX landed the Falcon 9’s first stage on the “Of Course I Still Love You” droneship located in the SpaceX’s “Just Read the Atlantic Ocean. Instructions” droneship. One half of this mission’s Falcon 9’s fairing previously supported the SXM-7 mission, and the other half previously supported the NROL-108 mission. Download the CPI mobile app! HPA RF calculator Quickly access HPA data sheets TWTA/SSPA product finder Spacelink on-orbit map, as of this writing. Convenient contact info For continual on-orbit updates of the Starlink constellation, please visit satellitemap.space. And, lest we forget, SpaceX also launched 60 Starlink smallsats on May 9. After stage separation, the Falcon Search: CPI Satcom 9’s first stage returned to Earth and landed on the “Just Read the Instructions” droneship. This was the first Falcon 9 first stage booster to complete a tenth launch and landing. The first stage booster previously supported Crew Dragon’s first demonstration mission to the International Space Station, the RADARSAT Constellation Mission, SXM-7, and this seventh Starlink mission. SatMagazine Page 5 June 2021 InfoBeam