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URthereumon Jan 23, 2019 12:45pm
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RE:Twitter
RE:Twitter We all know Urthecast has been off of the https://www.sstl.co.uk/space-portfolio/missions-in-build for a long time.
Did find this from Oct 24, 2018 though: https://www.sstl.co.uk/media-hub/latest-news/2018/sstl-wins-uk-board-of-trade-award
Which says:
SSTL’s current order book includes navigation payloads for Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation constellation, 6 satellite platforms for the FORMOSAT-7 weather forecasting constellation, remote sensing satellites for UrtheCast’s UrtheDaily constellation, a small geostationary platform for the Eutelsat Quantum telecommunications satellite, a 12U nanosatellite for Honeywell to test a new two-way VHF Data Exchange System (VDES) payload for the exactEarth advanced maritime satellite constellation, a target satellite for ASTROSCALE’s ELSA-d mission which will simulate capture of orbital debris and validate end-of-life spacecraft retrieval services, and an Earth observation satellite for Kazakhstan.
Off the ones mentioned above:
Galileo - on missions in build
Formosat 7 - on missions in build
Urthecast - *not on missions in build*
Eutelsat Quantum - on missions in build
Elsa-D - on missions in build
Honeywell Nanosateliite - Launched Dec 3, 2018
Earth observation satellite for Kazakhstan - Launched Dec 3, 2018
Other missions in build not article:
Vivid-i constellation - Customer: Earth-i (launch 2019)
Orbital Test Bed (OTB) - Customer: SST-US (launch on Falcon Heavy, March 2019)
EarthCARE - Customer Airbus/ESA (launch 2021) https://earth.esa.int/web/guest/missions/esa-future-missions/earthcare
So.... good news: mentioned in the article, bad news.... still not on website and 2020 isn't far away.