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Kleos Space S.A., a space-powered Radio Frequency Reconnaissance data-as-a- service (DaaS) company, successfully launched its third satellite cluster, the Patrol Mission on 1 April 2022 onboard the Transporter-4 SpaceX mission.

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Satellogic Inc. announced the launch of five additional spacecraft from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The satellites were delivered to a Sun-synchronous low-Earth orbit on SpaceX’s Transporter-4 mission on 1 April 2022 onboard the Falcon 9 reusable, two-stage rocket, under SpaceX’s Rideshare programme. All five satellites have made contact with the company’s ground station network with good health reports, bringing Satellogic’s constellation total to 22 satellites in orbit.

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The recent SpaceX Transporter-4 mission included three satellites built by smallsat mission integrator NanoAvionics for multiple customers.

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Rocket: Electron; Payload: two BlackSky satellites; Date: 2 April 2022, 1241 UTC; Launch site: Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand. Electron successfully delivered the pair of BlackSky Gen-2 Earth-imaging satellites to a circular 430-km orbit, growing BlackSky’s constellation of real-time geospatial monitoring spacecraft to 14.

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Rocket: Falcon 9; Payload: Transporter 4 mission; Date: 1 April 2022, 1624 UTC; Launch site: Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, USA. On board this flight were 40 spacecraft, including CubeSats, microsats, picosats, non-deploying hosted payloads, and an orbital transfer vehicle carrying spacecraft to be deployed at a later time.

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ESA’s Ariane 6 and Vega-C will soon join the family of launch vehicles operating from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. The P120C motor, which will power both Ariane 6 and Vega-C, will soon come into operations with the Vega-C inaugural flight.

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Russian state-run space corporation Roskosmos did not expect to sign contracts for major launch campaigns, as was the case with UK OneWeb project, corporation spokesperson Dmitry Strugovets has said.

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Rocket: Chang Zheng 11; Payload: Tianping-2A, Tianping-2B, Tianping-2C; Date: 30 March 2022, 0229 UTC; Launch site: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China. The satellites were deployed into 584 km × 604 km × 97.80 degrees Sun-synchronous orbits.

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