Momentus to Launch IRIS-A Mission for NCKU Space Laboratory
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (Momentus Space PR) — Today we are happy to announce a launch service agreement with NCKU Space Laboratory and ODYSSEUS Space.
The IRIS-A mission we are supporting is of strategic importance to Taiwan, and is the first of three, with follow up missions IRIS-B and IRIS-C due to reach space in 2022 and 2023.
IRIS-A will be equipped with Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to achieve a Doppler shift estimation and improve the quality of downlink signal, increasing the efficiency of future IoT constellations of nanosatellites intended to monitor objects from space.
ODYSSEUS is a young startup based in Taiwan created by French professionals coming from the European space sector. They have experience and expertise both in Asia and in Europe to uniquely address the booming global market of small satellites applications.
ODYSSEUS has been working with National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) of Tainan, Taiwan (NCKU) for many years now. IoT is a very hot topic in Taiwan and we are thrilled to be working with leaders in the sector bringing the technology to space.
Our Vigoride solution is highly innovative and provides small satellite developers, like NCKU and ODYSSEUS with long awaited flexibility in the choice of their orbit and their timeline.
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and according to some Russians Starliner will launch to ISS Aug. 31.https://http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/...
About as accurate as all the other space-related stories out of Russia for the last several years I’d say.
I would think it would be earlier than that.
According to what Boeing had to say yesterday, it will be later than that and it will be unmanned. Looks as though the persistent penury of Russia has forced them to rely only on the second-raters in the turncoats-for-hire intelligence sources market. All the good ones are probably working for China these days as, at least for now, they’ve still got money.