Quantum Space reveals plan for Scout-1 #satellite and Sentry mission.
#SANFRANCISCO – Quantum Space plans to launch Scout-1, the space infrastructure and services company’s first #satellite, no earlier than March 2024 on a SpaceX Transporter rideshare flight.

From sun synchronous low-Earth orbit, the Scout-1 #satellite will test a sensor Quantum Space plans to send to deep space as part of QuantumNet, a constellation to provide customers with communications, navigation and space situational awareness services in geostationary and cislunar space.

Sue Hall, Quantum Space vice president programs, called the Scout-1 Sentry mission a “stepping stone” toward QuantumNet

In the wake of the full-scale #Russian invasion, global attention has focused on Western military support extended to Ukraine. Much of this recognition centers on the provision of conventional resources, such as ammunition, fighting vehicles, tanks, artillery, air defense systems, and, of course, the famously effective High #Mobility #Artillery #Rocket Systems (HIMARS) #spacenews

#WASHINGTON — SpaceX launched more than 100 #satellites in the ninth in a series of dedicated smallsat rideshare missions Nov. 11, the latest flight in a program that has generated both delight and disdain across the commercial space industry.

A Falcon 9 lifted off from #Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 1:49 p.m. Eastern on the Transporter-9 mission. The booster, which previously launched 11 missions including Transporter-8 in June, landed back at the launch site seven and a half minutes after liftoff.

Transporter-9 carried 90 payloads deployed over the course of half an hour, starting about 55 minutes after liftoff, although confirmations of a successful deployment were initially missing for several of the satellites. Those payloads included several orbital transfer vehicles that will later deploy their satellites, bringing the total satellites on the launch to more than 110. #spacenews

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