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The launch today was for client Iridium, delivering 10 satellites to low Earth orbit for its Iridium NEXT communications constellation.
SpaceX has successfully launched its Iridium-5 mission, which carries 10 satellites to add to Iridium's NEXT global communications constellation.
SpaceX's application to add thousands of satellites to its proposed Starlink communications constellation has been approved by the FCC, though it will be some time before the company actually puts those birds in the air.
The Wideband Global SATCOM, which will join a communications constellation that started in 2007, took off from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 37 on the United Launch Alliance rocket.
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The current state-of-the-art low-orbits communications satellites constellations will be dramatically expanded to higher orbits and to orbits supporting work on other remote human colonies.
Kepler Communications is developing a constellation of CubeSats that will connect devices on earth and in orbit, effectively putting cell phone towers in space.
(The number to beat, by the way, is 75, which is roughly the number of satellites in the constellation of communications company Iridium).
Others have tried to put up constellations of communications satellites, only to fail spectacularly.
Nevertheless, the small quantity of satellites necessary, even for large constellations in communications systems, limits some of the benefits of volume production, such as reduced costs, although this is not necessarily true of component products that are common to several satellite designs for example, sensors, instruments, small rocket motors, and communications equipment.
Inmarsat operates a constellation of 10 communications satellites, providing satellite phone and broadband services to almost the entire planet.
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