HEO House
Good morning. It is December 13, and in the present day’s picture comes from an organization that photographs different objects in area—HEO House. It reveals one of many two Mission Kuiper satellites at present present process testing in low-Earth orbit.
Mission Kuiper is Amazon’s reply to SpaceX’s Starlink satellite tv for pc Web constellation. Nonetheless, within the run-up to the October launch of the primary two demonstration satellites on an Atlas V rocket, Amazon was tremendous secretive in regards to the satellites. It launched virtually no technical particulars or any images. So this in-space picture is one of the best we have for now.
My colleague, Stephen Clark, reached out to Amazon to see if we will count on extra details about Mission Kuiper quickly. “We did see that!” James Watkins, of Amazon, stated in referencing the HEO House picture. “Very cool. Nothing so as to add from our facet in the mean time, and nonetheless no plans to launch photograph/renderings within the near-term.”
So yeah, no cube.
Based mostly in Australia, HEO House flies sensors as hosted payloads on different satellites, with the aim of offering the potential to determine different satellites in area and assess their standing, operation, and anomalous conduct. There positive are a whole lot of sensible individuals doing sensible issues in area lately.
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