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Kepler books SpaceX rideshare for LEO satellites

Kepler Communications on Dec. 11 said it booked 400 kilograms of rideshare capacity with SpaceX  in order to launch an unspecified number of its Internet of Things cubesat next year.
SpaceNews.com

                        WASHINGTON — Kepler Communications on Dec. 11 said it booked 400 kilograms of rideshare capacity with SpaceX  in order to launch an unspecified number of its Internet of Things cubesat next year.
Toronto-based Kepler reserved room on two Falcon 9 missions, though the contract allows for flying Kepler’s satellites on more or fewer missions than that, Jared Bottoms, head of launch and satellite programs at Kepler, told SpaceNews. 
Bottoms declined to say how many satellites Kepler would launch on the SpaceX rideshare missions. However, he said that the SpaceX rideshare and Kepler’s other launch agreements provide enough rides to low Earth orbit for the company’s “Gen-1” constellation of 15 cubesats.
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Saturn Satellite Networks to be first customer of Northrop Grumman’s OmegA

Northrop Grumman announced Dec. 12 that Saturn Satellite Networks, a startup satellite manufacturer, will be the customer for the first OmegA launch in 2021.
SpaceNews.com

                        WASHINGTON — Northrop Grumman announced Dec. 12 that Saturn Satellite Networks, a startup satellite manufacturer, will be the customer for the first OmegA launch in 2021.
Northrop said Saturn will fly one or two of its NationSat small geostationary satellites on an OmegA rocket launching from the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39B in the spring of 2021. Terms of the contract were not disclosed.
Saturn is a firm founded by former executives of satellite operator ABS to develop small geostationary satellites with digital payloads. Saturn announced in September its intent to acquire NovaWurks, a California company that has been developing smallsats using modular platforms that can be expanded. Saturn...