(Luxembourg, November 6th, 2020) – On the 6th of November at 04:20 a.m. (Luxembourg time), Spacety’s 20th satellite, BEIHANGKONGSHI-1, carrying the world’s first iodine electric propulsion system on board, was successfully launched into space on a CZ-6 Long March 6 rocket from Taiyuan, in China. BEIHANGKPNGSHI-1 is the first of the 12U satellite type developed…
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French propulsion startup ThrustMe unexpectedly made it into orbit early this month with its innovative propulsion system placed aboard a Chinese cubesat. Dianfeng, or Xiaoxiang-1 (08), a six-unit cubesat developed by privately owned Spacety, was a secondary payload on the launch of the Gaofen-7 civilian Earth observation satellite Nov. 2, along with a first satellite…
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