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EO/IR Cubesat Tech Demo on SpaceX Transporter-10 Mission

Frank Wolfe

Friday, March 8th, 2024

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EO/IR Cubesat Tech Demo on SpaceX Transporter-10 Mission

A SpaceX Falcon 9 launches Transporter-10 on March 3 from Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif. (SpaceX Photo)

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a number of small satellites for the company's Transporter-10 project launched on March 4 from Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif. Such birds included Arcfield-owned Orion Space Solutions' cube satellite for the U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command's (SSC) ElectroOptical/Infrared (EO/IR) Weather Systems (EWS) technical demonstration, two radio frequency satellites by France’s Unseenlabs for maritime domain awareness, and three ICEYE commercial synthetic aperture radar satellites (Defense Daily, March 4). The one-year EWS cubesat tech demo…

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