Mission History
Below is a listing of previous Astrotech Space Operations missions.
The satellite will support business applications such as broadcast video and cable programming, Internet backbone connectivity, VSAT data and other telecommunications services.
UFO F-11 will provide UHF and enhanced EHF communications. The UHF payload incorporates a new UHF digital receiver, providing two additional UHF channels and greater flexibility in configuring communication services.
The satellite will be used to offer a variety of digital video, Internet and data services. Using a Hawaii-based relay station, the satellite's Ku-band payload also will be able to deliver content and services between the United States and Asia.
EchoStar has equipped the spacecraft with the first commercial Ka-band spot-beam payload in the United States. In addition, Loral Skynet will own and operate the satellite's C-band capacity, which will provide television programmers with North American coverage.
The Boeing GEO-Mobile satellite was built for Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Company of United Arab Emirates to support Thuraya's mobile data and voice services business.
Two of the spacecraft's deployable antennas will provide Pan European coverage, including Greece, the Balkans and Eastern Europe, while two steerable beams can be moved to cover South Africa and the Middle East.
AsiaSat will use the spacecraft to provide communications, direct-to-home and broadband services to customers in Asia and Australia.
ICESat is the benchmark Earth Observing System mission for measuring ice sheet mass balance, cloud and aerosol heights, as well as land topography and vegetation characteristics. CHIPSat is a University-Class Explorer (UNEX) mission funded by NASA.
The Air Force Coriolis mission will fly the Navy Windsat microwave polarimetric radiometer and Air Force Solar Mass Ejection Imager in a low Earth, sun synchronous orbit.
The W5 fixed widebeam will offer unparalleled Ku-band connectivity stretching from Western Europe through the Middle East and Central Asia to Southern Asia.
Hispasat-1D, along with Hispasat-1C (launched 2000) offers pan-European and pan-American multi-area coverage. This coverage can extend to certain areas of North Africa. The flexibility offered by the satellite's design will allow users to benefit from intercontinental links between Europe and the Americas.
Hotbird-6 delivers digital television and radio channels to satellite and cable homes in Europe, North Africa and large parts of the Middle East, reinforcing one of the largest broadcasting systems in Europe.
Galaxy IIIC will provide Internet, video, audio and data services to the United States and Latin America.
EchoStar 7 will replace EchoStar 4, which has experienced a series of anomalies impacting its performance.
Iridium IS-1 is one satellite in the Iridium satellite constellation. The large group of satellites provides voice and data coverage to satellite phones, pagers and integrated transceivers over Earth's entire surface.
Digital images taken from orbit by the QuickBird-2 satellite are expected to rival aerial photography in terms of both cost and possible economic and scientific applications.
The OrbView-4 satellite is a high-resolution and hyperspectral imaging satellite. QuickTOMS is an ozone mapping instrument designed for NASA.
The Genesis spacecraft was a NASA sample return probe which collected a sample of solar wind and returned it to Earth for analysis.
The GOES I-M satellites are the primary element of U.S. weather monitoring and forecast operations and are a key component of NOAA's National Weather Service operations and modernization program.
NASA's Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP) will scan the sky for over two years, gathering information on the faint cosmic glow.
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