Spaceflight Inc. Launch PSLV Missions to Expand Constellations - Official Update

Today's news is the official Spaceflight release:

Spaceflight’s next mission is slated to lift off on a PSLV-C49 rocket during the first half of November from India’s Satish Dhawan Space Center, SDSC SHAR. It will carry four smallsats from Kleos Space and four from Spire. The Kleos 6U satellites make up the company’s Scouting Mission, which will be foundational in its radio frequency monitoring constellation. The smallsats are the cornerstone of a 20-system constellation that will geolocate VHF transmissions from marine vessels to provide global activity-based intelligence data as a service. Spaceflight also manifested four Spire Global Lemur-2 3U cubesats to add to its constellation of small, inexpensive satellites in operation for Earth observation, maritime monitoring, communications, meteorology and science.“We are thrilled that the launch date of the Kleos Scouting Mission is close at hand and that with a successful launch of PSLV-C49 we will be able to start to provide RF geolocation data products to our waiting global customer base,” said Andy Bowyer, CEO of Kleos Space. “From there we start the deployment of our constellation of Kleos satellites in the middle of 2021 with Spaceflight onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch.”

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