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Electron | Beginning Of The Swarm (ACS3 & NeonSat-1)
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April 23, 2024, 10:32 p.m.
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NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) is a technology demonstration mission tasked with deploying a composite boom solar sail. NeonSat-1 is a high-resolution optical satellite by South Korea's KAIST that will be deployed as a technology demonstration for a planned future Earth observation constellation.
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | 2 x Galileo
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Payload consists of two satellites for Europe's Galileo navigation system.
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-54
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A batch of satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
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April 25, 2024
Russian EVA-62
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Shenzhou 17 Landing
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Electron
Beginning Of The Swarm (ACS3 & NeonSat-1)
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